First Allied Airborne Army
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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 of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton
American paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army, 17 September 1944
Operational Channels, First Allied Airborne Army, 28 November 1944.
The 17th Airborne Division, "The Golden Talons", was an airborne infantry division of the United States Army during World War II, commanded by Major General William M. Miley.
First Allied Airborne Army
…in Western Europe from August 1944 to May 1945. These included the U.S. IX Troop Carrier Command, the U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps, which controlled the 17th, 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and a number of independent airborne units, all British airborne forces including the 1st and 6th Airborne Division…
Members of the 466th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion prepare for Operation Varsity.
C-47 transport aircraft drop hundreds of paratroopers as part of Operation Varsity.
Churchill tanks of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade carrying American paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division, Germany, 29 March 1945.