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US Airborne Divisions
in the ETO 1944-45
STEVEN
J
ZALOGA received
his SA in history from Union
College, and his MA from
Columbia University. He has
published numerous books
and articles dealing with
modern military technology,
especially armored vehicle
development. His main area
of interest is the US Army
in the European Theater of
Operations in World War II.
Battle
Orders •
25
US Airborne Divisions
in the
ETO 1944-45
Steven
J
Zaloga
Consultant Editor
Or Duncan Anderson •
Series editors
Marcus Cowper and Nikolai Bogdanovic
First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Osprey Publishing.
Midland House. West Way. Botley. Oxford OX2 OPH. UK
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Author's note
The author would like to thank the staff of the US Army's Military
History Institute at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks,
PA, for their kind assistance in the preparation of this book.
Thanks also go to Peter Brown and Timm Haasler for help with
several research questions. The photos in this book are primarily
from the wartime US Army's Signal Corps collections located
formerly at the Pentagon and the Defense Audio-Visual Agency
at Anacostia Navy Yard, and now at the US National Archives in
College Park, MD. Other Signal Corps and US Army photos were
located at other army facilities including the Military History
Institute, the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, the
Patton Museum, Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the Ordnance Museum,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
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Key to military symbols
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Army Group
0
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Army
0
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Corps
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III
II
Division
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Brigade/Combat
Command
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Regiment
Battalion
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Company
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[ZJ
Infantry
[Q]
Armor
Platoon
8
Artillery
CJ
Airborne/
parachute
B
Glider
G
Engineer
U
Signal
Headquarters
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Supply
[2]
Cavalry/
Reconnaissance
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Medical
G
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CHAP
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Military Police
Chaplain
EJ
Ilrel
Maintenance
LSJ
~
Ordnance
~
Anti-tank
IT]
Mortar
Ed
Special troops
Key to unit identification
Quartermaster
D
E;J
Anti-ai rcraft
identifier
Unit
~
Parent
unit
Commander
Weapons
Contents
Intro'duction
Combat mission
Preparation for war: doctrine and training
Lessons learned • Training
4
7
9
Unit organization
Parachute infantry regiment • Glider infantry regiment • Airborne artillery
Airborne engineer battalion • Airborne anti-aircraft battalion • Airborne tank battalion
16
Airborne weapons and equipment
Troop carrier organization • Airborne tactics: the navigation problem
45
Command and control
Tactics
Operation
Neptune:
night drop over Normandy • Operation
Dragoon:
the champagne campaign
Operation
Market:
paving the way to a bridge too far • Operation
Varsity:
bouncing the Rhine
54
58
Assessing the combat record
Unit status
82nd Airborne Division • 101 st Airborne Division • 17th Airborne Division
13th Airborne Division • I st Provisional Airborne Task Force (Seventh Army Provisional Airborne Division)
84
86
Further reading
Official studies and reports • Books
92
Glossary
Index
94
95

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