Operation Market Garden order of battle

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

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[edit] 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.


[edit] 21st Army Group

Under Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery

[edit] First Allied Airborne Army

Commanded by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton (USAAF)

[edit] British Second Army

Commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

[edit] Combined Troop Carrier Command

(under operational control of First Allied Airborne Army)

  • IX Troop Carrier Command - Major General Paul L. Williams
    • 50th Troop Carrier Wing (C-47 Skytrain) - Brigadier General Julian M. Chappell
      • 439th, 440th, 441st, 442d Troop Carrier Groups
    • 52nd Troop Carrier Wing (C-47) - Brigadier General Harold L. Clark
      • 61st, 313th, 314th, 315th, 316th Troop Carrier Groups
    • 53rd Troop Carrier Wing (C-47) - Brigadier General Maurice M. Beach
      • 434th, 435th, 436th, 437th, 438th Troop Carrier Groups
  • No. 38 Group RAF - Air Marshal L.M. Hollinghurst (RAF)
  • No. 46 Group RAF - Air Commodore L. Darvall
    • No. 48, 233, 271, 437, 512, 575 Squadrons RAF (Dakotas)
    • No. 437 Squadron RCAF

[edit] Air forces

[edit] Royal Air Force

RAF Second Tactical Air Force - Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham

RAF Fighter Command - Air Marshal Roderick Hill

RAF Bomber Command - Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris

RAF Coastal Command - Air Chief Marshal Sholto Douglas

[edit] United States Army Air Forces

Ninth Air Force - Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg

Eighth Air Force - Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle

[edit] German forces

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.

[edit] German Armed Forces Group (AFC) Netherlands

Commanded by General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen

[edit] Army Group B

Commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Walther Model

Fifteenth Army - General der Infanterie Gustav-Adolf von Zangen

  • LXVIII Corps - General der Infanterie Otto Sponheimer
    • 346th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Erich Deister
    • 711th Static Division - Generalleutnant Josef Reihert
    • 719th Coastal Division - Generalleutnant Karl Sievers
  • LXXXVIII Corps - General der Infaterie Hans Reinhard
    • Kampfgruppe "Chill" - Generalleutnant Kurt Chill
    • 59th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Walter Poppe
    • 245th Infantry Division - Oberst Gerhard Kegler
    • 712th Static Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Neuman

First Parachute Army - General der Fallschirmtruppen Kurt Student

  • LXXXVI Corps - General der Infanterie Hans von Obstfelder
    • 176th Infantry Division - Oberst Christian Landau
    • Kampfgruppe "Walther"
    • 6th Parachute Regiment - Oberstleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von der Heydte
    • 107th Panzer Brigade - Major Freiherr von Maltzahn
    • Division "Erdmann" - Generalleutnant Wolfgang Erdmann
  • II Parachute Corps - General der Fallschirmtruppen Eugen Meindl
  • XII SS Corps - Obergruppenführer Kurt von Gottberg
    • 180th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Bernard Kloster Kemper
    • 190th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Ernst Hammer
  • 363rd Volkgrenadier Division - Generalleutnant Augustus Dettling

[edit] Wehrkreis VI

Corps "Feldt" - General der Kavalerie Kurt Feldt

406th Landesschützen Division - Generalleutnant Scherbenning

[edit] Luftwaffe West

Drawn from a pool of available units, almost all understrength

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