The First Allied Airborne Army was an Allied formation formed on 2 August 1944 by the order of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander...
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in France, it came under the command of the First Allied Airborne Army, which controlled all Allied airborne formations. The division, along with two others...
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Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's XVIII Airborne Corps, a part of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army. It was not chosen to participate...
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British Second Army and the First Canadian Army. Established in London during July 1943, under the command of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary...
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it was part of the First Allied Airborne Army. Under the command of Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, I Airborne Corps was formed in...
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Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning; also deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Army 1st Airborne Division, Major-General Roy Urquhart 1st Parachute Brigade, Brigadier...
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all Allied airborne forces as an airborne army, as well as three army groups that controlled a total of eight field armies; First Allied Airborne Army all...
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newly created First Allied Airborne Army. The corps headquarters did not see service in Operation Market Garden, with the British I Airborne Corps being...
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The Allied Armies in Italy (AAI) was the title of the highest Allied field headquarters in Italy, during the middle part of the Italian campaign of World...
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The 1st Airborne Division was an airborne infantry division of the British Army during the Second World War. The division was formed in late 1941 during...
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