1ST AIRBORNE TASK FORCE

- ORDRE DE BATAILLE -

 

Composition (environs 10.000 hommes):

 

•  Etat-Major 1st ABTF (110 hommes)

 

•  Unités parachutistes:

 

2^nd Independent Parachute Brigade Group (IPBG) Britannique

Brigadier CHV Pritchard (2632 homme)

Qui se compose :

-4th Para Battalion du Lieutenant Colonel H.B.Coxen

-5th(Scottish) Para Battalion du Lieutenant Colonel D.Hunter

-6th(Royal Welch) Para Battalion du Lieutenant Colonel V.W.Barlow

-1st Independent Parachute Platoon

-127th Para Field Ambulance

-2^nd Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers

-751^st Para Brigade Company

-2^nd Independent Para Brigade Group Signals, Reme Workshop et Provost Section.

-172^nd DID Heavy Aerial Resuply Company.

 

517^th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) Américain.

Qui se compose :

-517th Parachute Infantry Regiment PIR du Colonel Rupert D Graves (2058 hommes)

-460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (PFAB) du Lieutenant Colonel Raymond L Cato (570 hommes)

-596^th Parachute Combat Engineer Company (PCEC): les 2^nd et 3^rd Platoon du Capitaine Robert Dalrymple (135 hommes)

 

509th Parachute Infantry Combat Team (PICT)

Qui se compose:

-509^th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) du Colonel William P Yarborough (705 hommes)

-463th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (PFAB) du Lieutenant Colonel John T Cooper (573 hommes)

-596^th Parachute Combat Engineer Company le 1^st Platoon du Lieutenant Raymond C Hild (65 hommes)

 

551^st Parachute Infantry Battalion (PIB) du Lieutenant Colonel Wood Joerg (736 hommes)

 

Un groupe de paras français du Bataillon de Choc du 1er RCP (20 hommes)

 

 

• Unité transporté par planeur :

 

-550^th  Glider Infantry Battalion (GIB) du Lieutenant Colonel Ed Sachs ( 582 hommes )
-602^nd  Glider Field Artillery Battalion (GFAB) des Major Hunt et Dressler (657 hommes)
-64^th  British Light Artillery Battalion (BLAB) du Major Duncan (121 hommes)  
-30^th Antitank Air Landing Battery du Major Potter (110 hommes)

-Antitank Company du 442nd " Nisei " Infantry Regiment des Lieutenants Scotland et Farris (167 hommes)
-83^rd Chemical Mortar Battalion - D Company du Capitaine LaKey (185 hommes)
-2^nd  Chemical Mortar Battalion - A Company des Lieutenants Goodell et Perrott (185 hommes)
-512^th Airbone Signal Company du Lieutenant Ingui (131 hommes)
-676^th Medical Collecting Company du 164^th Medical Battalion du Major Smith (104 hommes)
-887^th Airbone Aviation Engineer Company du capitaine Shamen (165 hommes)

-Military Platoon de la 1st ABTF du Lieutenant Wade