Operation Market Garden order of battle

Operation Market Garden order of battle

This is the complete order of battle of Allied and German forces involved during Operation Market Garden.

Contents

Allied forces

US General Dwight D. Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) and in that capacity was ultimately responsible for the planning and execution of the whole operation. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was his deputy, while Major General Walter Bedell Smith was chief of staff.

21st army group badge large.gif 21st Army Group

Under Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery

Allied Arborne Army.jpg First Allied Airborne Army

Commanded by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton, USAAF

British I Airborne Corps

Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning; also deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Army


  • 82 ABD SSI.svg 82nd Airborne Division - Brigadier General James M. Gavin
    • 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • 325th Glider Infantry Regiment
    • 376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion
    • 319th Glider Field Artillery Battalion
    • 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion
    • 456th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion
    • 80th Airborne Antiaircraft Battalion
    • 82nd Airborne Signal Company
    • 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion
    • 307th Airborne Medical Company
    • 82nd Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
    • 782nd Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company
    • 407th Airborne Quartermaster Company
    • 82nd Parachute Maintenance Company


  • US 101st Airborne Division patch.svg 101st Airborne Division - Major General Maxwell D. Taylor
    • 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • 327th Glider Infantry Regiment
    • 1st Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment
    • 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion
    • 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion
    • 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion
    • 907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion
    • 81st Airborne Antiaircraft Battalion
    • 101st Airborne Signal Company
    • 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion
    • 326th Airborne Medical Company
    • 101st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment
    • 801st Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company
    • 426th Airborne Quartermaster Company
    • 101st Parachute Maintenance Company


  • IX Troop Carrier Command - Major General Paul L. Williams
    • 50th Troop Carrier Wing (C-47 Skytrain) - Brigadier General Julian M. Chappell
    • 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

2nd british army badge large.gif British Second Army

Commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

VIII Corps

Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor

XII Corps

Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie

  • 7th Armoured Division - Major-General G. L. Verney
  • British 15th (Scottish) Division Insignia.png 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division - Major-General C. M. Barber
  • 53rdDivInsigniaFinal.jpg 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division - Major-General R. K. Ross
XXX Corps 1944-1945 shoulder flash.jpg XXX Corps

Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks

  • 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
  • British Guards Division Insignia.pngGuards Armoured Division - Major-General A. H. S. Adair
    • 2nd Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion Welsh Guards[1]
    • 5th Guards Armoured Brigade
    • 32nd Guards Brigade
      • 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards
      • 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
      • 3rd Battalion Irish Guards
    • 1st Independent Machine Gun Company (Northumberland Fusiliers)
    • 55th Field Regiment Royal Artillery[3]
    • 153rd Field Regiment Royal Artillery[4]
    • 21st Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery[5]
    • 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
    • Guards Armoured Division Postal Unit Royal Engineers
    • 310th Armoured Brigade Company Royal Army Service Corps
    • 224th Infantry Brigade Company Royal Army Service Corps
    • 535th Infantry Brigade Company Royal Army Service Corps
    • 5th Guards Armoured Brigade Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
    • 32nd Guards Brigade Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
    • 19th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
    • 128th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
    • 8th Guards Field Dressing Station Royal Army Medical Corps
    • 60th Field Hygiene Section Royal Army Medical Corps
  • 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division - Major-General G. I. Thomas
    • 129th Infantry Brigade
    • 130th Infantry Brigade
      • 4th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
      • 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
      • 7th Battalion Hampshire Regiment
    • 214th Infantry Brigade
      • 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
      • 5th Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
      • 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
    • 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Machine Guns)
    • 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment Reconnaissance Corps
    • 94th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 112th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 179th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 59th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 110th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 13th Bridging Platoon Royal Engineers
    • 204th Field Company Royal Engineers
    • 207th Field Park Company Royal Engineers
    • 260th Field Company Royal Engineers
    • 553rd Field Company Royal Engineers
    • 16th Airfield Construction Group Royal Engineers
    • 43rd (Wessex) Division Postal Unit Royal Engineers
    • 54th Company Royal Army Service Corps
    • 504th Company Royal Army Service Corps
    • 505th Company Royal Army Service Corps
    • 506th Divisional Company Royal Army Service Corps
  • 50thDivInsigniaFinal.jpg 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General D. A. H. Graham; On September 18, the division was transferred to VIII Corps
    • 2nd Battalion The Cheshire Regiment (Machine Gun)
    • 69th Infantry Brigade
      • 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
      • 6th Battalion Green Howards
      • 7th Battalion Green Howards
    • 151st Infantry Brigade
      • 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
      • 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
      • 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
    • 231st Infantry Brigade
      • 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
      • 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment
      • 7th Battalion Devonshire Regiment
    • 2nd Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment (Machine Guns)
    • 74th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 90th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 124th Field Regiment Royal Artillery
    • 102nd Anti-Tank Regiment (The Northumberland Hussars), Royal Artillery
    • 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
    • 50th (Northumbrian) Division Postal Unit Royal Engineers

Air forces

Royal Air Force

Ensign of the Royal Air Force.svg Second Tactical Air Force - Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham

Fighter Command - Air Marshal Roderick Hill

Bomber Command - Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris

RAF Coastal Command - Air Chief Marshal Sholto Douglas

Us army air corps shield.svg United States Army Air Forces

8th Air Force.png U.S. Eighth Air Force - Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle

9th Air Force.png U.S. Ninth Air Force - Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg

German forces

The majority of German units stationed west of the Rhine were under the responsibility of Oberbefehlshaber West (OB West), commanded at the time by Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt.

Due to a lack of replacements (both in terms of personnel and materiel) German units were generally severely understrength at this point in the war, with many units at about 50% of establishment strength.

German Armed Forces Group (AFC) Netherlands

Commanded by General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen

Army Group B

Commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Walther Model

II SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich

Fifteenth Army

General der Infanterie Gustav-Adolf von Zangen

LXVIII Corps

General der Infanterie Otto Sponheimer

  • 346th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Erich Diestel
  • 711th Infanterie Division Logo.svg 711th Static Division - Generalleutnant Josef Reichert
  • 719th Infantry Division Logo.svg 719th Coastal Division - Generalleutnant Karl Sievers - Transferred to 1st Fallschirmarmee September 4.
LXXXVIII Corps

General der Infanterie Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard

  • Kampfgruppe "Chill" - Generalleutnant Kurt Chill
  • 59th Infanterie Division.svg 59th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Walter Poppe
  • 245th Infantry Division - Oberst Gerhard Kegler
  • Coat of arms of the 712. Infanterie-Division of the Wehrmacht.svg 712th Static Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann
LXXXVI Corps

General der Infanterie Hans von Obstfelder

  • 176th Infantry Division - Oberst Christian Landau - Transferred to 1st Fallschirmarmee September 4.
  • Kampfgruppe "Walther"
  • 6th Parachute Regiment - Oberstleutnant Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte - Transferred to 1st Fallschirmarmee September 4.
  • 107th Panzer Brigade - Major Freiherr von Maltzahn
  • Division "Erdmann" - Generalleutnant Wolfgang Erdmann - Transferred to 1st Fallschirmarmee September 4.
XII SS Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Kurt von Gottberg

  • 180th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Bernhard Klosterkemper
  • 190th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Ernst Hammer
  • 363rd Volkgrenadier Division - Generalleutnant Augustus Dettling

Wehrkreis VI

Corps "Feldt" - General der Kavalerie Kurt Feldt

  • 406th Landesschützen Division - Generalleutnant Scherbenning

Luftwaffe West

Colonel General Kurt Student

  • 1st Parachute Army - Drawn from a pool of available units, almost all understrength; totaling 3,000 men as of September 1944
    • I Parachute Corps
    • II Parachute Corps - General der Fallschirmtruppen Eugen Meindl
    • 86th Corps

See also

References and notes

  1. ^ three Cromwells and one A30 Challenger tank per troop
  2. ^ three companies of infantry mounted on ,-3 half-tracks except for the scout platoon which used 13 Bren carriers
  3. ^ 24 towed 25-pdr Field Guns
  4. ^ 24 Priest and/or Sexton Self-Propelled Guns
  5. ^ two batteries of 17-pdr guns and two batteries of M-10 tank destroyers

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