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	Gebirgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The arrival of the 6th Airlanding Brigade on the evening of D-Day was by all accounts an awe-inspiring sight.
		With them came A Company of the 12th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment, the 6th Airlanding Light Battwry RA, 249th Field Company RE and two sections of 195th Airlanding Field ambulance which were each attached to the two infantry battalions.
		This equipment was stockpiled on the east bank of the River Orne for use in the event of the bridges being subsequently destroyed.
	www.regt85th.fsnet.co.uk /re.html (573 words)

	Gliderborne Assault on D-Day - GLIDER TROOPS
		Between July and September 1943, the 1st Airlanding Brigade received large drafts of reinforcements to cover the losses sustained in Sicily, and were soon back up to full strength and able to accompany the 1st Airborne Division on its relatively peaceful sea-borne invasion of Italy on September 9th.
		The 6th Airlanding Brigade came into existence in the UK during 6 May 1943, and its first commander was Colonel A.M. Toye (acting), who arrived on 14 May 1943 and was succeeded just 10 days later, on 24 May 1943 by Brigadier Hon.
		With the aid of specialized heavy equipment delivered by General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders, the airlanding infantry units were to reinforce the parachute battalions and hold off the Germans until the units of the airborne division were relieved by units arriving from the seaborne lodgement.
	free.prohosting.com /mawey/gliderborne_glidertroops.htm (3444 words)

	British 6th Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It consisted of paratroop units and glider landed troops known as Airlanding.
		During the last hours of 5 June 1944 as part of Operation Tonga, transport aircraft and towed gliders carried units of the 6th Airborne to Normandy where they would land just prior to the D-Day landings that took place on the morning of 6 June.
		The area around Pegasus and Horsa were successfully defended until they were eventually relieved, having repulsed numerous counter-attacks by the Germans, later on 6 June by Lord Lovat's 1 Special Service Brigade, followed later by elements of the British 3rd Infantry Division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_6th_Airborne_Division (925 words)

	181 Airlanding Field Ambulance, RAMC
		No medical units accompanied C Company on the drop, however a section of 21 men from the Ambulance were aboard the six landing craft which were used to evacuate the paratroopers from France upon the completion of their mission.
		The invasion of Sicily loomed and the 1st Airlanding Brigade were charged with the capture of the Ponte Grande bridge, near Syracuse.
		On the 19th September, the 4th Para Brigade was relieved in its forward positions by the 1st Airlanding Brigade, and two sections of the Ambulance were detached to accompany them, whilst those that remained in Taranto assumed command of the 320-bed Rondinella Hospital.
	www.arnhemarchive.org /batt_181afa.htm (820 words)

	British 1st Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1st Airborne was formed on October 31, 1941, placed under the command of Major General Frederick Browning.
		At first, it consisted of the 1st Parachute Brigade and the 1st Airlanding Brigade, but in July of 1942, it received the 2nd Parachute Brigade, bringing its strength to a full division.
		However, in late 1942, the 1st Para was sent to North Africa, again depleting the division's strength.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_1st_Airborne_Division (1048 words)

	Market Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At the same time part of the 1st Airlanding Brigade, Divisional Headquarters and as many supporting troops as could be fitted in would land by glider in the area immediately North West of Wolfheze Station.
		To lift the lst Parachute Brigade and this force 161 parachute aircraft of the U.S. 9th Troop Carrier Command and 297 gliders and tug aircraft of 38 and 46 Groups RAF were required.
		The task of the Airlanding Brigade, when the landing and dropping zones no longer needed to be secured, the 4th Parachute Brigade and the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade Group was to form a perimeter round Arnhem leaving the 1st Parachute Brigade holding the bridges and in reserve.
	www.marketgarden.com /new/page4.html (976 words)

	1st Airlanding Brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 31st Independent Infantry Brigade was selected to be converted for the purpose and became the 1st Airlanding Brigade on the 10th October.
		In April 1943, shortly before they set sail for North Africa in preparation for the invasion of Sicily, the 1st Royal Ulster Rifles and 2nd Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry were released from the Brigade and formed the nucleus of the 6th Airlanding Brigade, the gliderborne infantry of the 6th Airborne Division.
		However on September 19th, the 1st Airlanding Brigade was called forward to relieve the 4th Para Brigade in its forward position, where it remained until the entire Division was withdrawn to England in November.
	www.arnhemarchive.org /batt_1st_air.htm (1174 words)

	The 6th Airlanding Brigade - 22nd to 25th August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At 11:30 on the 22nd August, the 6th Airlanding Brigade began its advance along the road leading from the Putot-en-Auge area towards Deauville, at the mouth of the River Touques, where their route collided with the coastal road, along which the 1st Belgian Brigade was racing.
		The general plan for the Brigade was to secure the middle ground that lay in between the Belgians and the 6th Airborne Division.
		However their reconnaissance unit, scouting ahead of the 6th Airlanding Brigade, was brought to a halt by enemy fire as they attempted to cross the river at Malhortie.
	www.ornebridgehead.org /depth_6thbgd22nd25th.htm (809 words)

	The Battle for Arnhem
		By the evening of the 18th September the situation was as follows: 2nd Parachute Battalion with certain other elements holding firm on the north end of the Arnhem Bridge; the other two Battalions of the 1st Parachute Brigade trying to break through in the general area of the St. Elizabeth Hospital and De Brink.
		On their way to join them were the 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment of the 1st Airlanding Brigade and the 11th Parachute Battalion of the 4th Parachute Brigade, with a view to a further attack being made on the 19th.
		The rest of the 4th Parachute Brigade was concentrated in the area of Wolfheze and to the west of it with a view to attacking eastwards along the railway.Unfortunately on the 19th neither the 4th Parachute Brigade nor the force trying to break through to the bridge was successful.
	users.telenet.be /dave.depickere/Text/mgarnhem.html (2755 words)

	divisions.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Two Battalions of the division were airlanded by Glider to relieve the beleaguered defenders of the fortress at Breslau where they were captured by the Russians.
		The 22nd Airlanding consisted of the 16th, 47th and 65th Infantry regiments and the 7th airborne, the Para assault regiment, 1st, 2nd 3rd Parachute regiments.
		The 22nd airlanding was supposed to back up the airborne forces once airstrips and airfields had been secured.
	www.eagle19.freeserve.co.uk /divisions.htm (2261 words)

	History.6th.org.uk, a dedicated site to WW2 history from the British perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The division's first element was the 6th Airlanding Brigade, which came under command on 6 May 1943, and this was joined later in the same month by the 3rd Parachute Brigade and the 72nd Independent Infantry Brigade, which arrived on 15 and 28 May respectively.
		It should also be noted that the gliders used for the delivery of the airlanding brigade were operated by wings whose varying number of squadrons each had a varying number of flights each with 20 gliders.
		The capability of the parachute and airlanding brigades was greatly bolstered by the divisional troops controlled by Divisional HQ.
	www.history.6th.org.uk /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=30 (1111 words)

	holland.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These men were from General Student’s 7th Airborne Division now combined with the 22nd Airlanding Division consisting of the 16th, 47th and 65th Infantry Regiments under the command of Generalmajor von Sponek.
		General Student and his Chief of Operations Major Heinrich Trettner went in with the 22nd Airlanding on the 10th May. The Fallschirmjäger objectives were the Dordrecht and Moerdijk bridges assigned to the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 1st Regiment, under the command of Hauptmann Erich Walther and Hauptmann Prager.
		The airfield at Waalhaven was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment under the command of Hauptmann Karl-Lothar Schulz and the Airfields at Valkenburg, Ypenburg and Ockenburg were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment under the command of Hauptmann Nosterand the 47th Infantry Regiment, part of the 22nd Airlanding Division.
	www.eagle19.freeserve.co.uk /holland.htm (936 words)

	The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - The first straw!
		A second force of 2 Bns of Paras(von Sponeck) and 2 Rgts of Airlanding Inf wre assigned to capture the Capital and the Dutch leadership.
		Almost half of the Luftwaffe was to be commited to this operation for the first 2 days, 400 to remain for the duration of the Campaign PLUS around 500 Transport aircraft.
		At Rotterdam, the target was Waalhave Airfield,, the Pars to capture the field for follow up Airlanding units then the Paras were to push on to the bridges.
	www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4586 (1177 words)

	D Troop, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron
		It was announced in September 1941 that the Brigade was to become the 1st Airlanding Brigade Group as part of the 1st Airborne Division; and the Brigade was so designated on 10 October 1941.
		They were not to participate in the Sicily landings while the 1st Parachute and 1st Airlanding Brigades had separate missions on that invasion although some members of the Squadron tried to stow away and join the fight.
		Both the 1st Airlanding and 1st Parachute Brigade, as well as the Reconnaissance Squadron, would be included in the first lift.
	www.1stairborne.com /recce.html (1045 words)

	Veterans Mems 6
		By the time the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment had reached Foggia, many other units of the 1st Airborne Division had been relieved and withdrawn to Taranto to reorganise.
		He wrote that the role of the gunners was often to clear the enemy from remote mountain locations, at times adopting mules as their motive power.
		All in all, the 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA was given a taste of action in Italy which was to prepare it for the more deadly events it was to encounter in Operation Market Garden, at Arnhem, in September 1944.
	freespace.virgin.net /j.dingwall/veteran6.htm (1275 words)

	Guardian \| Operation regime change
		Since the Gulf war the Pentagon has doubled the rate at which it can fly in tank units, with the C-17 transport plane designed to use short and roughly prepared airfields.
		Airlanding operations could see tanks rolling off the back of transport planes at Saddam Hussein airport and driving straight for central Baghdad.
		At the same time as this "head transplant" took place, helicopter units operating east from the Jordanian border would have the job of preventing any Scud attack on Israel, while air force bombers attempted to burn away any stocks of chemical or biological weapons.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4608762-103550,00.html (947 words)

	1st Airlanding Light Regiment, RA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1st Airlanding Light Regiment, RA The 1st Airlanding Light Regiment first saw life in February 1941 as 458 Independent Light Battery, formed from a cluster of similar units of the Royal Artillery.
		Commanded by Major Pat Lloyd and equipped with 3.7" pack howitzers, this elite unit was raised and trained with a view to lending close support in amphibious assaults upon beach heads, and it had already acquired a good deal of experience in India where it had served on the North-West Frontier.
		The Regiment was not needed for the airborne invasion of Sicily, but the Division's Commander Royal Artillery, Lt-Colonel Crawfurd, was killed during the offensive and McLeod was called upon to assume his responsibilities.
	www.arnhemarchive.org /batt_light_reg.htm (410 words)

	Lance-Corporal Jack Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first airborne assault fell to the gliderborne element of the 1st Airlanding Brigade on the 9th July, with the South Staffords charge with the capture of the Ponte Grande bridge near Syracuse.
		The 1st Airlanding Brigade was shipped to Italy on the 9th September 1943, and their brief stay here was one that Jack looked back on with great affection.
		Though there was always the threat of it, there was little in the way of enemy interference, and with a population who couldn't do enough for the troops there was always plenty of time to sample the food, culture, and the various distractions that the local womenfolk are ever willing to extend to visiting soldiers.
	www.pegasus-one.org /pow/jack_bird.htm (7189 words)

	4Reference \|\| Airborne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In addition the formations are limited only by the number and size of their aircraft, so given enough large aircraft a huge force can appear "out of nowhere" in minutes, an action referred to as vertical envelopment.
		To enhance their supplies the parachutist was sometimes followed into World War II.
		combat by the airlanding troops in gliders, and finally by the more conventional units in aircraft who fly into captured airfields, known as the airmobile.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Airborne.html (857 words)

	Chapter 4
		Bunia had a 6,000-foot, hard-surfaced runway which, although currently obstructed with oil drums, would permit the airlanding of motorized equipment and the rapid evacuation of rescued hostages by air once the field had been seized and secured.
		If no motorized equipment—similar to that planned for Bunia—could be airlanded, the combat capability of the paratroop elements would be seriously affected.
		It was not suitable for airlanding operations because the runway was of compact earth and its length was only 2,400 feet.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/glasgow/glas-4.htm (1499 words)

	The Battle of Ypenburg
		However, a second force of two battalions of paratroops and two regiments of airlanding infantry, commanded by General von Sponeck, were assigned to capture the Dutch capital itself, and with it the Dutch civilian and military leadership.
		In overall reserve were a battalion of paratroops and the fourth airlanding regiment Almost half the Luftwaffe was committed to the Netherlands for the first two days, and 400 combat aircraft were committed for the duration of the campaign, not including the 500 transport aircraft.
		As the first 13 Junkers carrying the airlanding infantry made their landing approach, the Dutch defenses on the airfield were virtually intact, and a hail of fire greeted the Germans.
	www.generalissue.com /history/ypenberg.html (3077 words)

	Northwest Historical Association Newsletter
		It carried 6th Airborne HQ, elements of the 6th Airlanding Brigade, and heavy 17-pounder AT guns and towing vehicles carried in Hamilcars.
		Next in at 1023 hours were 58 Horsas carrying elements of the 6th Airlanding Brigade.
		The Airlanding Brigade HQ and more elements of the division landed at 1034 hours in 88 Horsas and six Hamilcars.
	www.nwha.org /news_4Q2000/news_page5.html (2838 words)

	Stone & Stone: Book Review
		A combined force of paratroopers and airlanding troops under General Hans Graf von Sponeck, commander of the 22nd Luftlande Division, had the mission of capturing Queen Wilhelmina, the Dutch government, and the Dutch armed forces High Command by a surprise attack on The Hague.
		The landing of these planes and the disembarking of the airlanding troops would conclude the first part of the operation.
		The interval between airdrop and airlanding was too brief to allow the field to be secured by the scattered paratroopers on the ground before the transports arrived
	stonebooks.com /archives/041024.shtml (4532 words)

	Arnhem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At 1319 hours gliders containing Divisional Units such as the jeeps of the Reconnaissance Squadron and the Light Regiment's artillery guns, as well as the 1st Para Brigade's vehicles and anti-tank guns began to land on LZ-Z. 150 of the 167 gliders landed.
		The 1st Airlanding Brigade and Divisional units remained on their drop zones to await the arrival of the Second Lift on Monday morning.
		In compensation 7th KOSB was joined 4th Para Brigade from 1st Airlanding Brigade; however, this unit was allocated to defending the landing zones.
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/rules/crossfire/scenarios/arnhem.htm (9225 words)

	[No title]
		In the background, for these rules, their actual numbers are listed as consisting of 6 battalions of airborne forces (parachute), and one airlanding division of 12,000 men consisting of four airlanding regiments.
		If you want to bring in the airlanding guys, they must be programmed to follow up on the hexes that the paratroopers have landed in and survived.
		I failed to realize this rule, and so my airlanding guys did not get to the battle (not they would have done anything as far as the fortress itself is concerned.).
	www.grognard.com /reviews1/1940.txt (4433 words)

	British 1st Airborne Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At first it consisted of the Parachute Brigade and the 1st Airlanding Brigade in July of 1942 it received the 2nd Parachute Brigade its strength to a full division.
		1st Airborne was then used in invasion of Sicily but only the 1st Para and Airlanding participated in that action.
		On September 9 the unit was given orders to on Taranto Italy.
	www.freeglossary.com /1st_Airborne_Division (973 words)

	Summer of 44 - Vehicles
		It was at this time that the Jeep was converted for use by the Airborne forces.This meant adapting the Jeep for Airlanding by Horsa glider.
		All these modifications were needed just to get the Jeep into the glider, even then it was still a tight squeeze through the side loading door of the Mk 1 Horsa glider.
		I cannot say which Airlanding Light Regiment my Jeep served with, but there were only two.
	www.summerof44.org.uk /Menu/Vehicles/gpw-Ade.htm (1201 words)

	www.FlamesOfWar.com :: View topic - "Proxying", Would you allow it?
		Airlanding Battalions used Jeeps, so leave them in and add more (the British Airborne used FAR more Jeeps than their American counterparts).
		Each Airlanding Battalion did have a pair of Carriers for carrying ammo and the like, but they were unarmed.
		Organisation-wise: There were four Airlanding Companies to an Airlanding Battalion and four platoons to a company.
	fow.flamesofwar.com /viewtopic.php?t=11613&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30 (870 words)

	AIRLIFT IN THE DOMINICAN CRISIS
		The fires were delivered in response to observed enemy ground fire or when targets were identified by RVN Army commanders on the scene.
		In a typical airlanded assault, RVN and U.S. fixed wing aircraft delivered a heavy preparatory strike, then armed helicopters followed with suppressive fire to neutralize enemy positions that might have escaped the first strike.
		Suppressive fire continued until the airlanding was completed and the transports had left.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/abnops/tabg.htm (3395 words)

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