<A>Allied
<B>First Allied Airborne Army
Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton, USAAF
<C>British I Airborne Corps
Lieutenant General Frederick Browning; also deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army
<D>1st Airborne Division – Major General Roy Urquhart
1st Parachute Brigade – Brigadier Gerald Lathbury
1st Parachute Bn – Lt Col David Dobie
2nd Parachute Bn – Lt Col John Frost
3rd Parachute Bn – Lt Col John A. C. Fitch
1st (Airlanding) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery – Major
William Arnold
1st Parachute Field Squadron, Royal Engineers – Major Douglas
Murray
16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps – Lt Col E. Townsend
4th Parachute Brigade – Brigadier John (Shan) Hackett
10th Parachute Bn – Lt Col Kenneth B. I. Smyth
11th Parachute Bn – Lt Col George H. Lea
156th Parachute Bn – Lt Col Sir Richard Des Voeux Bt
2nd (Airlanding) Anti-Tank Battery, RA – Major A. F. Haynes
4th Parachute Field Squadron, Royal Engineers – Major Aeneas
Perkins
133rd (Parachute) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps – Lt Col W. C. Alford
1st Airlanding Brigade – Brigadier Philip Hicks
1st Bn Border Regiment – Lt Col Thomas Haddon
2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment – Lt Col W. Derek McCardie
7th Bn King’s Own Scottish Borderers – Lt Col Robert Payton-Reid
1st (Airlanding) Light Regiment, Royal Artillery – Lt Col William F. K. Thompson
1st Forward (Airborne) Observation Unit, Royal Artillery – Major Denys Wight-Boycott
9th Airborne Field Coy, Royal Engineers – Major John Winchester
181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps – Lt Col Arthur T. Marrable
Divisional Troops
21st Independent Parachute Company (pathfinders) – Major Bernard Wilson
1st Airborne Divisional Signals – Lt Col Tom Stephenson
1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron – Major Frederick Gough
261st (Airborne) Field Park Company, Royal Engineers
250th (Airborne) Light Composite Company, Royal Army Service Corps
1st (Airborne) Divisional Field Park, Royal Army Ordnance Corps – Major Cecil Chidgey
1st (Airborne) Divisional Workshops, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
1st (Airborne) Divisional Provost Company, Corps of Military Police – Captain William Gray
89th (Parachute) Field Security Section, Intelligence Corps – Captain John Killick
Glider Pilot Regiment – Lt Col George Chatterton
No. 1 Wing – Lt Col Iain Murray
No. 2 Wing – Lt Col John Place
Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade – Major General Stanisław Sosabowski
1st Parachute Infantry Bn – Lt Col M. Tonn
2nd Parachute Infantry Bn – Lt Col W. Ploszewski
3rd Parachute Infantry Bn – Major W. Sobociński
Anti-tank company
<D>82nd Airborne Division
Brigadier General James M. Gavin
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment – Colonel Reuben H. Tucker
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment – Colonel William E. Eckman
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment – Colonel Roy E. Lindquist
325th Glider Infantry Regiment
376th Parachute Field Artillery Bn
319th Glider Field Artillery Bn
320th Glider Field Artillery Bn
456th Parachute Field Artillery Bn
307th Airborne Engineer Bn
80th Airborne Antiaircraft Bn
82nd Airborne Signal Company
307th Airborne Medical Company
82nd Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
782nd Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company
407th Airborne Quartermaster Company
82nd Parachute Maintenance Company
<D>101st Airborne Division
Major General Maxwell D. Taylor
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment – Colonel Howard R. Johnson
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment – Lt Col John H. Michaelis
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment – Colonel Robert F. Sink
327th Glider Infantry Regiment
1st Bn, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment
321st Glider Field Artillery Bn
377th Parachute Field Artillery Bn
463rd Parachute Field Artillery Bn
907th Glider Field Artillery Bn
81st Airborne Antiaircraft Bn
326th Airborne Engineer Bn
101st Airborne Signal Company
326th Airborne Medical Company
101st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
801st Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company
426th Airborne Quartermaster Company
101st Parachute Maintenance Company
<D>IX Troop Carrier Command
Major General Paul L. Williams
50th Troop Carrier Wing (C-47) – Brigadier General Julian M. Chappell
439th Troop Carrier Group
440th Troop Carrier Group
441st Troop Carrier Group
442nd Troop Carrier Group
52nd Troop Carrier Wing (C-47) – Brigadier General Harold L. Clark
61st Troop Carrier Group
313th Troop Carrier Group
314th Troop Carrier Group
315th Troop Carrier Group
316th Troop Carrier Group
53rd Troop Carrier Wing (C-47) – Brigadier General Maurice M. Beach
434th Troop Carrier Group
435th Troop Carrier Group
436th Troop Carrier Group
437th Troop Carrier Group
438th Troop Carrier Group
<D>38 Group RAF
Air Vice Marshal L. M. Hollinghurst
190 Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
196 Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
295 Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
299 Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
620 Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
644 Squadron RAF (Stirlings)
Squadron RAF (Albemarle)
Squadron RAF (Albemarle)
Squadron RAF (Halifax)
644 Squadron RAF (Halifax)
<D>46 Group RAF
Air Commodore L. Darvall (Dakota)
Squadron RAF
271 Squadron RAF
Squadron RAF
Squadron RAF
437 Squadron RCAF
<B>21st Army Group
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery
<C>British Second Army
Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey
<D>VIII Corps
Lieutenant General Richard O’Connor
11th Armoured Division – Major General G. P. B. Roberts
3rd Infantry Division – Major General L. G. Whistler
49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
4th (Armoured) Brigade – Brigadier R. M. P. Carver
1st Belgian Infantry Brigade – Colonel B. Piron
<D>XII Corps
Lieutenant General Neil Ritchie
7th Armoured Division – Major General G. L. Verney
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division – Major General C. M. Barber
53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division – Major General R. K. Ross
<D>XXX Corps
Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks
2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
Guards Armoured Division – Major General A. H. S. Adair
5th Guards Armoured Brigade
2nd (Armoured) Bn, Grenadier Guards
1st (Armoured) Bn, Coldstream Guards
2nd (Armoured) Bn, Irish Guards
1st (Motorized) Bn, Grenadier Guards
32nd Guards Brigade
5th Bn, Coldstream Guards
1st Bn, Welsh Guards
3rd Bn, Irish Guards
2nd (Armoured) Reconnaissance Bn, Welsh Guards
Divisional units
15th/19th Hussars [attached from 11th Armoured Division]
64th Medium Regiment, RA [attached from Second Army]
55th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA
21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
94th Light Anti-Aircraft, Regiment Royal Artillery
14th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers
615th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers
148th Field Park Squadron, Royal Engineers
11th Bridging Troop, Royal Engineers
43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division – Major General Ivor Thomas
129th Infantry Brigade
4th Bn, Somerset Light Infantry
4th Bn, Wiltshire Regiment
5th Bn, Wiltshire Regiment
130th Infantry Brigade
4th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment
5th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment
7th Bn, Hampshire Regiment
214th Infantry Brigade
1st Bn, Worcestershire Regiment
5th Bn, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
7th Bn, Somerset Light Infantry
Divisional troops
43rd Reconnaissance Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps
8th Bn, Middlesex Regiment (Machine Guns)
94th (Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA
112th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
59th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
110th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
204th Field Company, Royal Engineers
260th Field Company, Royal Engineers
553rd Field Company, Royal Engineers
207th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers
13th Bridging Platoon, Royal Engineers
16th Airfield Construction Group, Royal Engineers
50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division – Major General D. A. H. Graham [Division joined VIII Corps on 18 September]
69th Infantry Brigade
5th Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment
6th Bn, Green Howards
7th Bn, Green Howards
151st Infantry Brigade
6th Bn, Durham Light Infantry
8th Bn, Durham Light Infantry
9th Bn, Durham Light Infantry
231st Infantry Brigade
1st Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment
1st Bn, Hampshire Regiment
7th Bn, Devonshire Regiment
Divisional troops
2nd Bn, Cheshire Regiment (Machine Gun)
74th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
90th (City of London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
124th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Regiment, RA
25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
233rd Field Company, Royal Engineers
501st Field Company, Royal Engineers
505th Field Company, Royal Engineers
235th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers
8th Armoured Brigade – Brigadier E. G. Prior-Palmer
4th/7th Dragoon Guards
13th/18th Hussars
Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
147th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
12th (Queen’s Westminsters) Bn, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Royal Netherlands Brigade Prinses Irene – Colonel A. de Ruyter
van Steveninck
<B>Jedburgh Teams
<C>1st Airborne Corps headquarters
One Dutch, Captain Staal, two American officers and two British
<D>Team Claude: 1st British Airborne
Captain Groenewoud Netherlands
Lieutenant Todd US
Sergeant Scott US
Lieutenant Knottenbelt Netherlands
<D>Team Clarence: 82nd Airborne
Captain Bestebreurtje
Lieutenant Verhaeghe US
Sergeant Beynon US
<D>Team Daniel: 101st Airborne
Lieutenant Dubois Netherlands
Sergeant Fokker Netherlands
Major Wilson British
Sergeant Mason British
[Jedburgh Teams TNA HS 7/275]
<B>First Allied Airborne Army Casualties and Statistics
Killed wounded missing total
1st Airborne 322 240 6424 6986
1st Polish 34 142 207 383
82nd Airborne 336 1912 661 2909
101st Airborne 573 1987 378 298]3
Total 1265 4281 7670 13216
[Casualty figures, First Allied Airborne Army NARA RG331/Entry 254/Box20]
20,190 troops were dropped by parachute, 13,781 landed by glider, and 905 airlanded on a strip prepared by airborne engineers. A total of 34,876 landed out of 36,228 despatched from UK. Altogether 3,520.8 tons of supplies were dropped by parachute and 278 artillery weapons. Gliders delivered 1,259.1 tons of supplies and equipment, 1,689 vehicles and 290 artillery weapons. 451 tons of supplies and 258 vehicles were landed by aircraft. Total deliveries came to 5,230.9 tons of equipment and supplies, 1,927 vehicles, and 568 artillery weapons.
[First Allied Airborne Army statistics, NARA RG331/Entry 254/Box20]
<A>Wehrmacht
<B>Army Group B
Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model
Generalleutnant Hans Krebs
<C>II SS Panzer-Korps
Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich
506. Schw. Panzer Abteilung (15 Königstiger)
Flak Brigade v. Swoboda (623 officers and men; 24 ×
88mm, 26 × 20mm)
9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen – Obersturmbannführer Walter Harzer
9th SS Panzer-Regiment (without tanks, north of Arnhem)
19th SS Panzergrenadier-Regiment (in Zutphen)
20th SS Panzergrenadier-Regiment (in Rheden)
9th SS Artillery Regiment (without guns, Dieren)
9th SS Reconnaissance Bn (in Hoenderlo)
9th SS Panzerjäger Battalion (near Apeldoorn)
9th SS Engineer Battalion (Hauptsturmführer Möller)
9th SS Flak Battalion (4 × 20mm Dieren)
9th SS Signals Bn
In west Arnhem and Oosterbeek area under command 9th SS Panzer
Kampfgruppe Spindler
Kampfgruppe Krafft (when reinforced, 939 officers and men; 4 × 88mm, 2 × 80mm mortar; 3 × 37mm Pak, 3 × 20mm)
Kampfgruppe Möller (9th SS Pionier abteilung)
Bataillon Köhnken (573 officers and men; 7 × 80mm mortars, 3 × 37mm Pak, 4 × 20mm flak)
Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 280 (424 officers & men; 10 × assault guns)
SS-Werfer-Abt.502 (173 officers & men; 12 × mortar, 2 × Pak 38)
Division von Tettau – Generalleutnant Hans von Tettau
Kampfgruppe Lippert (SS-Unteroffiziersschule Arnheim)
Kampfgruppe Helle (SS-Wach Bataillon Nordwest)
Kampfgruppe Eberwein
Kampfgruppe Worrowski (Ausbildung und Ersatz Regiment
Hermann Göring Division – Oberstleutnant Fritz Fullriede)
Panzer Kompanie 224 (16 Renault tanks)
Festung M.G.Bataillon 37.
Schiffs-Stamm Abteilung 14. (2 × Soviet Pak)
Fliegerhorst Bataillon (from 3. Fliegerdivision Deelen)
<D>10th SS Panzer-Division Frundsberg
Brigadeführer Heinz Harmel
10th SS Panzer-Regiment (3 × Mk V Panther)
21st SS Panzergrenadier-Regiment
22nd SS Panzergrenadier-Regiment
10th SS Artillery Regiment
10th SS Reconnaissance Battalion
10th SS Antitank Battalion
10th SS Engineer Battalion
10th SS Flak Battalion
10th SS Signals Battalion
Arnhem Bridge then north-eastern Betuwe
Kampfgruppe Brinkmann (1,506 officers and men total)
SS Panzer Aufklärung Abteilung 10. (3 × 20mm; 1 × 37mm and 1 × 75mm anti-tank guns)
SS Panzergrenadier-Regiment 21.
SS Flak Battery 102 (8 × 20mm, 2 × 37mm flak)
Kampfgruppe Knaust
Kp. Mielke (8 Panzer Mk III and Mk IV)
Kampfgruppe Gerhard (1,913 officers and men total)
Kampfgruppe Gräbner (remains of 9 SS Pz Aufklärung Abteilung)
Bataillon Schoerken (12 × 80mm mortar)
Flak-Kampfgruppe Ladewig (12 × 88mm, 8 × 20mm)
Flak Bttr. Krüger (5 × 20mm, 4 × 88mm)
4. Luftwaffe Werft. Abt. 119/XI
SS Sicherungs Kompanie
Artl. Regiment.191 (1,363 officers and men; 26 × 105mm, 3 ×
150mm)
Feldgendarmerie Kompanie
In Nijmegen, north bank of Waal and Pannerden
Kampfgruppe Henke (assorted companies under HQ of
Fallschirmjäger training regiment Henke, incl. 88mm and 20mm flak guns in situ).
Kampfgruppe Reinhold from 10th SS Panzer
SS Artillery Training Regiment V (north bank of Waal)
SS Panzer Artillery Regiment 10 (Pannerden)
SS Battalion Euling (SS Pzg Regiment 22, Hunnerpark & Valkhof)
SS Panzer 10. Flak (Pannerden)
SS Panzer 10. Engineer company (Valkhof)
SS Panzer-Regiment 10. (3 Panther Tanks, Lent)
[9th SS Panzer-Division order of battle, BArch-MA RS3-9, pp.3-4]
<B>First Parachute Army
Generaloberst Kurt Student
<C>LXXXVI Korps
General der Infanterie Hans von Obstfelder
Kampfgruppe Walther
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment von Hoffmann (2 battalions)
Panzerjäger Kp 11 × Pak
Luftwaffe Ersatz Abteilung
6th Fallschirmjäger-Regiment (transferred to LXXXVIII Korps)
Division Erdmann – Generalleutnant Wolfgang Erdmann (7th Fallschirmjäger-Division)
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Menzel (2 battalions)
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Grossmehl (2 battalions)
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Laytved-Hardegg (2 battalions)
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Greve (2 battalions)
Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Hübner (2 battalions)
Panzerjäger Abteilung Grunwald (16 × 75mm Pak)
712th Infanterie-Division
<C>LXXXVIII Korps
General der Infanterie Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard
59th Infanterie-Division – Generalleutnant Walter Poppe
245th Infanterie-Division
719th Division – Generalleutnant Karl Sievers
Kampfgruppe Chill – Generalleutnant Kurt Chill (remains 85th Infanterie Division)
18. Flak Brigade
107. Panzer Brigade Major Freiherr von Maltzahn
Kampfgruppe Koeppel (Eindhoven)
6th Fallschirmjäger-Regiment (Oberstleutnant v.d.Heydte, from Division Erdmann)
Kampfgruppe Jungwirth (3 battalions)
<C>Korps Feldt General der Kavallerie Kurt Feldt
3 Luftwaffe ‘Fortress’ battalions
406th Division, Generalleutnant Gerd Scherbening
Abschnitt Kleve (512 officers and men, 1 × heavy, 2 × medium, 4
× light mortars)
Abschnitt Goch (461 officers and men)
Abschnitt Geldern (671 officers and men)
Abschnitt Kaldenkirchen (2,856 officers and men)
Division Raessler
Abschnitt Erkelenz, Oberst Freiherr v. Nagel (2,697 officers and men, 7 × heavy, 11 × medium mortars)
Abschnitt Jülich, Major Münniger (1,299 officers and men, 14 × 122mm Pak)
Division Schmidt (from 20.9.44)
Fl.Ausb.Rgt.53 (101 officers and men)
Abschnitt Goch
Abschnitt Geldern
<C>II Fallschirm-Korps
General der Fallschirmjäger Eugen Meindl
Assorted units from 3., 5., 8. and 9. Fallschirmjäger Divisions