Airborne kingdom discussion
Whether that means they were under Gale's control I'm unsure of. The current Order of Battle shows that two wings of the Glider Pilot Regiment was attached to the division for the invasion of Normandy, is this correct? I would have imagined they were assigned to lift the division in but not temporally attached to the division so i.e Gale would have command etc of them.Ĭan anyone clear this up?- EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 14:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC) Reply Well, it's my understanding that the Glider Regiment pilots were trained as infantry and often fought alongside the infantry they had piloted into battle. Its HQ and 9th Brigade were sent to Rome, where the genuine 2nd Parachute Brigade was based, whilst its 8th Brigade was 'sent' to Malta for training and to recieve reinforcements from England.ģ2nd (Air Transit), formed in late '44, and was doing training with transport aircraft, under Central Command, India in early 1945 At a later stage German agents were close to finding that this division was not all it was made out to be. The division stayed in the western Med till 1944 where it was used in various ploys concerning Allied landings along the Adriatic coast. Then moved to Cyrenaica as part of Twelth Army for nominal op's against Crete.ĥth was activated in late 1943 and contained the genuine 2nd Parachute Brigade from 1st Airborne. The division arrived in Palestine in early'42 for notional op's against Greece. Elements of 5th Parachute Brigade (6th Airborne) were allocated to the division from March'45 onwardsĤth, composed as of April 1943 of the 6th (Gurkha) Parachute Brigade, 1st Special Air Service Brigade and 7th Airborne Brigade (OoB's available if you want). The Division was disbanded in December'44, as its troops provided replacements for the 1st & 6th Airborne Divisions.ģrd, was active in SE Asia, for proposed missions in Burma etc. Used as a deception division leading up to DDay, and then again for the proposed Air-Op around Kiel-Bremen when actually Arnhem was underway. The reason the second Br ABD was number 6th was that the preceding numbers were deception formations (info from Axis History Forum - ):Ģnd,formed with the 11th & 12th Parachute Brigades and 13th Air-Landing Brigade. Discussion below is a bit inconclusive or at least not acted upon. B5 It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.The attachment of pathfinders to the division is mentioned but they aren't idenitified in the OOB (especially as the only image in the article is of pathfinders).If there is to be a timeline for D-Day activities it should come after the paragraphs on D-Day not after the entire section on operations in Normandy.Would the formation section also beenfit from the OOB being laid out as it is later for the D-Day OOB? With so many briagdes and battalions being mentioned, reading it in linear form isn't easy (to me at least).It's discussed below but the explanation needs to go into the article. I think that the section on formation needs to explain why the division although the second formed was numbered the 6th.B2 It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies.Were they in there at some earlier point and have been removed by accident?
553 with no citation for the name of the book etc. The Rhine crossings are cited but the reference sources aren't e.g. All sections except the Rhine crossings are uncited.B1 It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations.