1ST AIRBORNE TASK FORCE
- ORDRE DE BATAILLE -
Composition (environs 10.000 hommes):
Etat-Major 1st ABTF (110 hommes)
Unités parachutistes:
2nd 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
-2nd Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers
-751st Para Brigade Company
-2nd Independent Para Brigade Group Signals, Reme Workshop et Provost Section.
-172nd DID Heavy Aerial Resuply Company.
517th 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)
-596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company (PCEC): les 2nd et 3rd Platoon du Capitaine Robert Dalrymple (135 hommes)
509th Parachute Infantry Combat Team (PICT)
Qui se compose:
-509th 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)
-596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company le 1st Platoon du Lieutenant Raymond C Hild (65 hommes)
551st 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 :
-550th
Glider Infantry Battalion (GIB)
du Lieutenant Colonel Ed Sachs ( 582 hommes )
-602nd
Glider Field Artillery Battalion (GFAB)
des Major Hunt et Dressler (657 hommes)
-64th
British Light Artillery Battalion (BLAB)
du Major
Duncan (121 hommes)
-30th
Antitank Air Landing Battery
du Major Potter (110 hommes)
-Antitank
Company du 442nd " Nisei " Infantry Regiment
des Lieutenants Scotland et Farris (167 hommes)
-83rd
Chemical Mortar Battalion
- D Company du Capitaine LaKey (185 hommes)
-2nd
Chemical Mortar Battalion
- A Company des Lieutenants Goodell et Perrott (185 hommes)
-512th
Airbone Signal Company
du Lieutenant Ingui (131 hommes)
-676th
Medical Collecting Company du 164th Medical Battalion
du Major Smith (104 hommes)
-887th
Airbone Aviation Engineer Company
du capitaine Shamen (165 hommes)
-Military Platoon de la 1st ABTF du Lieutenant Wade