Allied Forces

 

18th US Airborne Corps

Commander : Major-General Matthew Ridgway

 

6th Airborne Division and Attached Units

17th US Airborne Division

 

6th Guards (Tank) Brigade

 

    Air Transport Forces

38 and 46 Groups, RAF

IX Troop Carrier Command, USAAF

 

21st Army Group

Commander : Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

 

    1st Canadian Army

Commander : Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar

 

    2nd British Army

Commander : General Sir Miles Dempsey

 

VIII Corps

 

XII Corps (Lieutenant-General Ritchie)

    7th Armoured Division

    15th (Scottish) Division

    52nd (Lowland) Division

    53rd (Welsh) Division

    1st Commando Brigade

    4th Armoured Brigade

    34th Armoured Brigade

    115th Infantry Brigade

 

XXX Corps (Lieutenant-General Horrocks)

    Guards Armoured Division

    51st (Highland) Division

 

    9th US Army

30th Infantry Division

79th Infantry Division