US AIRBORNE

• Comme pour les unités de la 101st Airborne, des sigles distinctif fut peint sur les côtés des casques pour faciliter l'identification. Mais contrairement à la 101st, toutes les unités n'eurent pas de sigle.

  504th PIR:skull and crossbones (tête de mort et os croisés)
  - 1st Bat. = rouge
  - 2nd Bat. = jaune
  - 3rd Bat. = Bleu
  - HQ Bat. = blanc
  A la fin de la guerre l'insigne pour le régiment est une épée enflammée sur un écu bleu.

• Infanteries :

504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) (Ne participa pas au D-Day)

505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR)

507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) (Attaché à partir du D-Day - détaché le 1er mars 1945)

508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) (Attaché à partir du D-Day)

325th Glider Infantery Regiment (GIR)

•  Artilleries :

376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (PFAB)

456rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (PFAB)

319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion (GFAB)

320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion (GFAB)

•  Autres :

80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion (AAA)

307th Airborne Engineer Battalion (AEB)

82nd Parachute Maintenance Battalion

307th Airborne Medical Battalion

782nd Ordnance Company

407th Quartermaster Company

82nd Signal Company

Military Police Platoon

Headquarters Company

Commanding General

 9 December 1943 - Maj. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway

27 August 1944 - Brig . Gen. James M. Gavin

 18 October 1944 - Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin

Assistant Division Commander

9 December 1943-26 August 1944 - Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

26 August 1943-13 December 1944 - VACANT

13 December 1944 - Col. Ira P. Swift

13 December 1944 - Brig. Gen. Ira P. Swift

Artillery Commander

9 December 1943 - Col. Francis A. March

9 February 1944 - Brig. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor

22 February 1944 - Col. Francis A. March

8 May 1944 - Col. Lemuel Mathewson

22 May 1944 - Col. Francis A. March

16 November 1944 - Brig. Gen. Francis A. March

Chief of Staff

9 December 1943 - Col. Ralph P. Eaton

28 August 1944 - Lt. Col. Robert H. Wienecke

29 August 1944 - Col. Robert H. Wienecke

Assistant Chief of Staff G-1

9 December 1943 - Lt. Col. Frederick M. Schillhammer [i.e., Schellhammer]

28 August 1944 - Maj. Alfred W. Ireland

6 November 1944 - Lt. Col. Alfred W. Ireland

Assistant Chief of Staff G-2

9 December 1943 - Lt. Col. Jack Whitefield [i.e., Whitfield Jack]

28 August 1944 - Lt. Col. Walter F. Winston

Assistant Chief of Staff G-3

9 December 1943 - Lt. Col. Paul L. Turner, Jr.

17 February 1944 - Lt. Col. Robert H. Wienecke

28 August 1944 - Maj. John Norton

29 August 1944 - Lt. Col. John Norton

Assistant Chief of Staff G-4

9 December 1943 - Lt. Col. Robert H. Wienecke

17 February 1944 - Maj. Bennie Zinn

1 June 1944 - Lt. Col. Bennie Zinn

7 June 1944 - Lt. Col. Frank W. Moorman (Acting)

17 June 1944 - Lt. Col. Frank W. Moorman

28 August 1944 - Maj. Albert G. Marin

11 November 1944 - Lt. Col. Albert G. Marin

Assistant Chief of Staff G-5

22 May 1944 - Capt. Peter Shouvaloff

13 December 1944 - Capt. Arthur W. Seward

12 February 1945 - Maj. Arthur W. Seward

Adjutant General

9 December 1943 - Maj. Raymond M. Britton

1 February 1944 - Lt. Col. Raymond M. Britton

23 February 1945 - Maj. Maurice E. Stuart

Commanding Officer, 504th Parachute Infantry

23 April 1944 - [Date rejoined division from Italy] Col. Reuben H. Tucker

Commanding Officer, 505th Parachute Infantry

6 Juillet 1942 - Col. James M. Gavin

9 December 1943 - Lt. Col. Herbert F. Batchellor

22 March 1944 - Lt. Col. William E. Ekman

22 July 1944 - Col. William E. Ekman

Commanding Officer, 507th Parachute Infantry

20 Juillet 1942 - Lt. Col. George V. Millet Jr.

6 June 1944 - Col. Edson Raff

Ensuite, le 507ème fut rattaché à la 17^ème Airborne.

Commanding Officer, 508th Parachute Infantry

20 October 1942 - Major Roy E. Lindquist

December 1945 - Lt. Col. Otho E. Holmes

Commanding Officer, 325th Glider Infantry

25 March 1942 - Col. Claudius Easley

9 December 1943 - Col. Harry L. Lewis

22 August 1944 - Lt. Col. Charles Billingslea

29 October 1944 - Col. Charles Billingslea

Commanding Officer, 376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion

November 1942 - Lt. Col. Wilbur Maben Griffith

September 1944 - Lt. Col. Robert H. Neptune

Commanding Officer, 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion

25 March 1942 - Lt Col. C. James C. Todd

Commanding Officer, 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion

25 March 1942 - Lt Col. Paul E. Wright

Commanding Officer, 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion

3 September 1942 - Lt. Col. Jack Withfield

25 August - Major Raymond Singleton (plus tard Lt. Col.)

Commanding Officer, 307th Glider Engineer Battalion

25 March 1942 - Lt Col. Robert S. Palmer

6 June 1944 - Major Edwin A. Bedell

Commanding Officer, 307th Medical Company

October 1941 - Major William H. Houston

6 June 1944 - Major Jerry J. Belden