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US Airborne Units in the
Mediterranean Theater
1942-44
Ist Special Service Force, February I0, I943-December
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GORDON L ROTTMAN
entered the US Army in
1967,
volunteered for Special Forces
and completed training as a
weapons specialist. He served
in the 5th Special Forces
Group in Vietnam in
1969-70
and subsequently in airborne
infantry, long-range patrol and
intelligence assignments until
retiring after 26 years. He was
a special operations forces
scenario writer at the Joint
Readiness Training Center
for 12 years and is now a
freelance writer, living in
Texas, USA.
Battle Orders • 22
US Airborne Units in the
Mediterranean Theater
1942-44
Gordon L Rottman
Consultant editor
Dr Duncan Anderson •
Series editors
Marcus Cowper and Nikolai Bogdanovic
First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Osprey Publishing,
Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 OPH, United Kingdom
443 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, USA
Email: info@ospreypublishing.com
Image credits
The photographic images that appear in this work were obtained
from the National Archives and Records Administration.
©
2006 Osprey Publishing Ltd.
All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study,
research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act, 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical,
optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission
of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be addressed to the Publishers.
ISBN-IO: I 841769207
ISBN-13: 978 I 84176 920 2
Page layout by Bounford.com, Cambridge, UK
Maps by Bounford.com, Cambridge, UK
Typeset in Monotype Gill Sans and ITC Stone Serif
Index by Alan Thatcher
Originated by United Graphics Pte Ltd, Singapore
Printed and bound in China by Bookbuilders
06 07 08 09 10
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Author's note
The author is indebted to Stuart Kohn, Donald Boose (COL, Ret),
and Allen Schoppe (MSG, Ret) for their invaluable assistance.
Following the styles used by different nations, in the unit
designations in this book US units are labeled, for example,
463d Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, whereas British and
Canadian units are labeled, for example, 2nd Independent
Parachute Brigade Group.
In the tree diagrams and maps in this volume, the units and
movements of national forces are depicted in the following colors:
US Army units
Italian units
German Army units
British Army units
French commandos
Olive drab
Sky blue
Grey
Brown
Dark blue
For a key to the symbols used in this volume, see below.
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Measurements and weapon calibers
Distances, ranges, and dimensions are mostly given in the
contemporary US system of inches, feet, yards, and statute miles.
A simple conversion table is provided below.
feet to meters:
yards to meters
miles to kilometers
centimeters to inches
multiply
multiply
multiply
multiply
feet by 0.3048
yards by 0.9114
miles by 1.6093
centimeters by 0.3937
Key to military symbols
000000000
Army
Corps
Division
Brigade
Regiment
Battalion
Company/
battery
Platoon
Section
Squad
Infantry
8
Artillery
[Q]
C8J
0
Armor
Parachute
infantry
Antitank
Glider field
artillery
Military Police
W
0
Parachute field
artillery
Recon
[E]
Glider infantry
Anti-aircraft
Engineer
Maintenance
Supply
Signal
8
Service
Machine gun
[X]
Ist Special
Service Force
Ilrol
B
@]
Ordnance
Quartermaster Aviation
~
HQ and
HQCo
EJEJ
Glider
Headquarters
Key to unit identification
Unit
~
Parent
identifier
~
unit
Commander
(+)
with added elements
(-) less elements
EE
Medical
0
[ill
Ammunition
Self-propelled
ITJ
Mortar
Contents
Introduction
Combat mission
Unit status
82d Airborne Division • Ist Special Service Force • Ist Airborne Task Force
51 7th Parachute Regimental Combat Team
4
6
8
Training
Doctrine
Unit organization
Unit designation practices • Airborne division organization • Ist Special Service Force
; 18
24
28
Tactics
Airborne assault • Ground combat
44
Weapons and equipment
Infantry weapons • Crew-served weapons • Vehicles • The airlift
52
Command, control, communications, and intelligence
Command and control • Communications • Intelligence
59
Combat operations
North Africa • Sicily • The Italian mainland • Southern France
63
Lessons learned
Chronology
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Index
89
91
92
94
95
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