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	101st Airborne WWII Division Chronicle
		The reserve division was disbanded 15 August 1942, and concurrently reconstituted in the Army of the United States as the 101st Airborne Division.
		The airborne capability was to be provided by two glider infantry regiments (GIRs), the 327th and 401st, and one parachute infantry regiment, the 502d, though the latter was still stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia.
		The paratroopers of First Allied Airborne Army were to jump into the Netherlands and secure a corridor from Eindhoven north to Arnhem, through which the ground forces of the British 30 Corps could advance and push on to the IJesselmer (Zuider Zee).
	www.501stpir.com /101st_airborne_history/101stabn_history.html (4945 words)

	The First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Varsity: Applying the Lessons of Arnhem - Storming Media
		The First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Varsity: Applying the Lessons of Arnhem
		Operation VARSITY is especially interesting because the First Allied Airborne Army, the responsible headquarters for this assault, made a determined effort to avoid the errors committed during Operation MARKET-GARDEN.
		Haunted by the decimation of the British 1st Airborne Division near Arnhem Bridge, First Allied Airbome Army commanders instituted changes in organization, command and tactics which secured the success of this final operation.
	www.stormingmedia.us /65/6582/A658203.html (205 words)

	american4.htm
		First is the USAAF HQ's 'winged star' sleeve patch having gold and silver bullion wire hand embroidered details on 2 ¾" wide dark blue wool underlay.
		This is an example of the 1942 first type design when such motor torpedo boat squadrons were affectionately called 'Mosquito Boats'.
		Organized in mid-1944 for the massive Holland "Market Garden" drop the First Allied Airborne Army was composed of the US 17th, 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, as well as the British Parachute Infantry Regiments and Polish Independent Airborne Brigade.
	www.blackcrossmilitaria.com /american4.htm (467 words)

	First Allied Airborne Army
		The First Allied Airborne Army was part of the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe in 1944 and 1945.
		The First Allied Airborne Army was activated on August 2, 1944 and commanded by USAAF Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton; second in command was British Lieutenant General Frederick Browning, succeeded in January 1945 by British Lieutenant-General Richard Gale.
		The next and final airborne operation conducted by the First Allied Airborne Army was Operation Varsity, during which the British 6th and the US 17th Airborne Divisions landed in Germany, helping to secure the crossing of the Rhine.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fi/first_allied_airborne_army.html (269 words)

	Operation MARKET-GARDEN
		The operation was an airborne attack deep in the enemy's rear areas to be launched in mid-September 1944 in conjunction with a ground attack by the British Second Army.
		The airborne forces General Eisenhower allotted to the 21 Army Group were organized under the newly created headquarters of the First Allied Airborne Army.
		The first plan was tentatively scheduled for execution on 20 August but was canceled, presumably because of concern over supply to the ground forces, since supplies were being delivered by aircraft that would have to transport the airborne troops, and because the ground troops would soon overrun the target area of the airborne forces.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_19.htm (5259 words)

	Operation Market Garden - Features on thehistorychannel.co.uk
		Thirty thousand British and American airborne troops were to be flown behind enemy lines to capture the eight bridges spanning the network of canals and rivers on the Dutch/German border.
		This was known as the 'airborne carpet', along which the advancing British armour of XXX corps could push through to Germany.
		Allied movements would have to go precisely to plan if it was to be a success.
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/features/operation_market_garden.php (1220 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		The airborne operation was planned and undertaken to implement the intentions of the Supreme Commander for the drive into Germany.
		The First Allied Airborne Army was to act in cooperation with the Northern Group of Armies until a bridgehead was secured across the lower Rhine.
		Once the airborne troops were on the ground, General Browning came under the command of XXX Corps, part of General Dempsey's British Second Army.
	www.usaaf.net /ww/vol4/vol4pg5.htm (502 words)

	U.S. 82nd Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Infantry Division became the first airborne division in the U.S. Army, and was redesignated the 82
		Airborne Division deployed to North Africa under the command of Major General Matthew B. Ridgway to participate in the campaign to invade Italy.
		Airborne deployed to Iraq before the scheduled October 15 referendum on the proposed constitution, and are expected to remain through the December national elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/82nd_Airborne_Division (2802 words)

	Frederick Browning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1943, he was given command of British First Airborne Corps, which in 1944 became part of First Allied Airborne Army (with Browning now a Lieutenant-General).
		Browning was second-in-command of the airborne forces from the First Allied Airborne Army committed during Operation Market Garden, landing with a tactical headquarters near Nijmegen but finding it difficult to command the troops due to communications failures and their geographical separation.
		His usage of 36 aircraft to move his Corps headquarters on the first lift has been criticized; the number of combat troops on the first lift was already restricted due to a decision not to make two drops on the first day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_Browning (622 words)

	U.S. 13th Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 13th Airborne Division of the United States Army was activated on August 13, 1943.
		Although assigned to the First Allied Airborne Army in Europe, the division as a whole was not committed to action in the European theater.
		The division returned to the United States in August 1945 for redeployment to the Pacific, but the end of the war precluded its use in combat in that theater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/13th_Airborne_Division (197 words)

	101st Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Airborne Division (Air Assault)—nicknamed the Screaming Eagles—is an airborne division of the United States Army primarily trained for air assault operations.
		The Army also re-activated the 4th Brigade Combat Team (known as "Currahee", and not active since World War II) and its subordinate units, to form a seven major units division (four infantry BCTs, two aviation BCTs, and one support Unit of Action), making it the largest formation currently in the U.S. Army.
		During the second deployment, 2nd and 4th Brigades of the 101st Airborne Division were assigned to conduct security operations under the command of Task Force Baghdad, led initially by 3rd Infantry Division, which was replaced by 4th Infantry Division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/101st_Airborne_Division (3426 words)

	1st Allied Airborne Army
		The first combat operation of the First Allied Airborne Army was during Operation Market-Garden.
		Airborne Divisions played an instrumental role in the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945, Operation Varsity was the next major operation conducted by the First Allied Airborne Army.
		Airborne Divisions leaped into Germany and helped breach the last major obstacle to the heart of Germany — the Rhine River.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Bunker/1944 (366 words)

	Largest Air Assault
		Since the inception of the combined command six weeks previous, the First Allied Airborne Army—which was supposed to streamline planning and implementation of operations—had planned and canceled eighteen operations.
		Army commanders in need of fuel believed that their needs were paramount and got commitments from Eisenhower and General Paul L. Williams to respond.
		The conception of the employment of the Airborne Army as a strategic army is not understood” (Brereton, 339).
	www.usaaftroopcarrier.com /Holland/H-largestairborneassault.htm (447 words)

	Operation Market Garden September 17 - 27 1944
		Eisenhower was increasingly under pressure form Washington (Army Chief of Staff General George C Marshall and Commander, Army Air Forces General Henry 'Hap' Arnold) to mount a major airborne operation before the end of the war in Europe, and so placed the First Allied Airborne Army under the control of the 21st Army Group.
		The British 1st Airborne Division's landing zones were on the heathland west of Arnhem, and their targets were the road bridge in the town centre, the railway bridge out to the west on the lower Rhine and a pontoon bridge (which was discovered to have been dismantled on the eve of the operation).
		The first was an amphibious landing by the (fictitious) Fourth British Army on the Dutch coast to cut off the remaining forces of the Fifteenth Army; the second was a drive northwest by the 21st Army Group towards Wesel with an eye to conducting a pincer movement around the Ruhr.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_arnhem.html (9115 words)

	Lone Sentry: Ever First! The 53rd Troop Carrier Wing -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet, Airborne
		T an airborne headquarters, plans were made for an attack near the Belgian border, but this operation was scrapped because Patton's armor had cut its own path to the north.
		Not only was the 53rd first to achieve the 150,000,000 pound mark, but it also was the first to record a total of 100,000 patients evacuated by air from front line strips.
		First to the front with airborne troops and supplies and first to the front to air-evacuate wounded, the team of the 53rd Troop Carrier Wing stands ready for future assignments knowing that in the battle to destroy Nazism the 53rd was there -- EVER FIRST!
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/53rdtroopcarrier (5178 words)

	Market Garden
		The massive initial airborne landings of September 17, 1944, are then recounted with equal attention to each of the three airborne divisions involved.
		The break-out battle by the Guards Armoured Division, spearhead of the ground army, is likewise illustrated with an unprecedented wealth of photographs.
		As the Polish Brigade is dropped south of the Rhine, and the ground army desperately tries to relieve the beleaguered British paras, down in the south the Germans launch repeated attacks on the narrow corridor in an attempt to cut the Allied supply artery.
	www.afterthebattle.com /market.htm (429 words)

	The XVIII Airborne Corps During WW II - Overview
		Similar to the Germans assault of four years earlier, the Allies initial plan for September 17,1944 was to use the paratroopers and glidermen of the 82nd and 101st U.S. Airborne Divisions and England's First Airborne Division in a daring daylight drop into Holland.
		The airborne Allied troops were to seize roads, bridges and the key communication cities of Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, thus cutting Holland in half and clearing a corridor for British armoured and motorized columns all the way to the German border.
		Operation Varsity would be the last full scale airborne drop of World War II and the assignment went to the British 6th Airborne Division and the 17th Airborne Division with the 507th spearheading the assault dropping at the southern edge of the Diersfordter Forest, three mile northwest of Wesel.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /18corps/18_overview.html (2507 words)

	D-Day Fact Sheet, 6 June 1944 Normandy, France: Ike: General Dwight D. Eisenhower Center: Operation Overlord, Omaha ...
		The 12,000 planes of the Allied air forces swept the Luftwaffe from the skies, photographed enemy defenses, dropped supplies to the resistance, bombed railways, attacked Germany's industries and isolated the battlefield.
		Allied air forces carried three airborne divisions into battle, protected the force as it crossed the English Channel, and attacked targets throughout the invasion area before and after the landing in support of the assault forces.
		In the predawn darkness of June 6, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were air dropped behind UTAH Beach to secure four causeways across a flooded area directly behind the beach and to protect the invasion's western flank.
	www.kansasheritage.org /abilene/ikedday.html (1062 words)

	Joseph L Begin 180th Engineer Battalion
		During the first days in the Allied invasion, the XIX Tactical Air Command, whose primary job was aerial support for the Third Army, established its own headquarters adjacent to the army headquarters.
		By 1945, the First, Third, Seventh, Ninth, Fifteenth, and First (Allied) Airborne Armies were operational in the ETO, the Fifth was in the MTO, the Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth were in the PTO, and the Second and Fourth Armies were in the United States with training missions.
		With few exceptions, all the armies and corps were organized by the AGF or existed in the Regular Army or Organized Reserves at the start of the war.
	graywolf1.home.pipeline.com /joebegin.html (2490 words)

	Xfire - Supported Games
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		America's Army - Designed by the U.S. Army this First Person Shooter revels in its realistic combat.
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	www.xfire.com /supported_games (504 words)

	After-Hourz Gaming Network - Home
		A joint allied operation into the island of Sicily, Operation Husky follows Boyd Travers and the 82nd Airborne on their first combat jump on July 11, 1943.
		After securing and sabotaging four anti-aircraft guns, Boyd is sent to rendezvous with a group of Airborne paratroopers at the edge of the village.
		First, After Hourz is primarily a PC gaming community, and in particular I am exclusively a PC gamer.
	www.after-hourz.com (959 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The First Allied Airborne Army was activated on August 2, 1944 after the lessons of Sicily and Normandy showed that a closer relationship was needed between allied airborne forces, troop carrier units and other land, sea or air assets.
		The first combat operation of the First Allied Airborne Army was during Operation Market-Garden.
		Although the American 17th, 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions played an instrumental role in the Battle of the Bulge from December 1944 to January 1945, Operation Varsity was the next major operation conducted by the First Allied Airborne Army.
	www.alliedairbornearmy.com /website/history_ww2.htm (203 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Operation Market Garden: History's Greatest Airborne Assault
		For the airborne troops fortunate enough to return from the assault on Normandy, the rear bases in England were utopia.
		The First Allied Airborne Army was to drop from the skies behind enemy lines and hold that corridor open at all costs.
		If Operation Market (the airborne part of the overall plan) was successful, the airborne would control the key bridges and strategic points and the British XXX Corps could roll in with maximum speed and complete the Garden (ground) phase of the operation.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blambitiousassault (1323 words)

	Operation Market Garden
		With momentum on their side, the Allied strategy was to attack Germany from the north by crossing the Rhine and capturing the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland, outflank the powerful Siegfried Line on the north and then drive for Berlin.
		The Airborne Divisions were to jump along a sixty mile corridor leading from in front of the British lines to Arnhem, Holland where it was intended to make the Rhine River crossing and then push east into Germany.
		The airborne Allied troops were to seize roads and bridges that lead to the all important bridge which crossed the Rhine at Arnhem, cutting Holland in half and clearing a corridor for British armored and motorized columns all the way to the German border.
	www.sanelson.com /82web/Mkt_Garden.htm (665 words)

	Allied Airborne Headquarters - US AIRBORNE
		As a First Lieutenant he commanded the first Airborne test platoon in 1940 and was the first American officer to make a parachute jump under than emergency conditions.
		The first division to be activated was the 82nd, at eight thousand men about half the size of a normal army division.
		The excitement and uncertainty of the first U.S. soldiers to jump is felt as the Test Platoon forges a new weapon of war, the American paratrooper.
	homeusers.brutele.be /sgteagle/welcometothealliedairborneheadquarters_usairborne.htm (1296 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - US Army in World War II
		First, shipping space was at a premium for not only combat but also support units, and all supply items had to be shipped from the United States over great distances to foreign ports.
		By 1945, the First, Third, Seventh, Ninth, Fifteenth, and First (Allied) Airborne Armies were operational in the ETO, the Fifth was in the MTO, the Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth were in the PTO, and the Second and Fourth Armies were in the United States with training missions.
		With few exceptions, all the armies and corps were organized by the AGF or existed in the Regular Army or Organized Reserves at the start of the war.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/usarmy/organization.aspx (574 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: The Supreme Command (ETO) [Chapter 15]
		The Third U.S. Army, brought from the United States and put under the command of General Patton in late 1943, remained in England during the first weeks of the invasion while some of its divisions were sent to the Continent for initial use in the First Army.
		The establishment of the First Allied Airborne Army under SHAEF to co-ordinate the varied elements of air and ground forces essential for airborne operations on the Continent was one of the major command changes of 1944.
		The airborne commander, he said, would be able to assume such responsibilities as joint training, development of operational projects, and logistical support of airborne operations until these functions could be taken over by normal agencies.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-15.html (6985 words)

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