Paras US

A part la 82 la101 et la 1ère airborne y-avait il d'autres unités paras et à quelles batailles ont elle participée?

Au moin 2 :

- 13th Airborne Division ( 517th PIR ) : Sud de la France, Rhin, Ardennes, Alsace, Allemagne.

- 17th Airborne Division : Bataille des Ardennes, campagne d'Allemagnre.



Et comme groupe principaux :

- 501st Parachutist Infantery Regiment
- 508st PIR
- 509st PIR

Pour les Américains,voilà:
-13th airborne division,la malchanceuse car elle n'a pas eu le temps de combattre.
-la 17th airborne(operation varsity,mars 1945,Allemagne).
-la 11th airborne(Pacifique,44-45).
-la 82nd et la 101st airborne,toutes deux bien connues.
"To strengthen the division for the final push into Germany the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team commanded by Colonel Rupert Graves was also assigned as a permanent unit. "
Pour la 13th,elle n'a pas combattue.Le 517th PIR a été assigné à cette division pour la renforcer en 1945.
"The 517th were veterans of Italy, Southern France, Belgium and Germany and chafed under the untested leadership of the 13th Airborne officers. The officers combat leadership would remain untested as potential aiborne objectives were continually overrun by advancing ground troops. Another operation code-named "Arena" called for dropping four to six Allied airborne divisions 100 miles east of the Rhine. It would be the largest airborne operation yet but General Eisenhower was unconvinced of its necessity and cancel it."

Operation Varsity was the first airborne invasion over the Rhine into Germany itself. But General Ridgway gave the nod to the 17th Airborne based on their combat experience in the Ardennes. The 13th Airborne would be kept in "strategic reserve".
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Première unité parachutiste américaine à sauter est la 509 PIB (mon avatar):
. 8 novembre1942 en Afrique du Nord
puis saut sur la Sicile, débarquement amphibie à Anzio, débarquement en Provence, puis les Ardennes.