United States Glider Infantry Battalion
The Glider Infantry Battalions were intended to provide the bulk of the manpower of the fledgling US Airborne Divisions, with two Glider Regiments to one Parachute. In reality though this ratio was usually reversed, as it proved difficult to supply sufficient gliders for transport. As with British Army the units involved were converted from Infantry outfits.
The United States Glider Infantry Battalion 1942 to 1944
Derived from the following Tables of Organization -
Headquarters & Headquarters Company, Glider Infantry Battalion, Table of Organization number 7-56, dated September 5th 1942 (including Change 1).
Glider Infantry Company, Table of Organization number T/O 7-57, dated September 5th 1942 (including Change 1).
Headquarters & Headquarters Company, Glider Infantry Battalion, Table of Organization number T/O 7-56, dated August 1st 1944.
Glider Infantry Company, Table of Organization number T/O 7-57, dated August 1st 1944.
Notes are also provided for the final authorised establishment for the Glider Infantry Battalion, issued as T/O 7-56T, T/O 7-57T and T/O 7-58T, all dated December 16th 1944. These were only slightly amended from those for The United States Infantry Battalion issued in February 1944. As I do not possess copies of the actual December 1944 tables the information is taken from other published sources by J J Hays and George Forty.
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