Glider Pilot Regiment

Glider Pilot Regiment
Cap badge of the Glider Pilot Regiment.
Active21 December 1941 – 1 September 1957
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeArmy Aviation
RoleAir transport and airborne infantry
SizeBrigade
Part ofArmy Air Corps 1942–1949
Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps (1949–1957)
Motto(s)Nihil est Impossibilis
"Nothing is Impossible"
EngagementsOperation Freshman
Operation Turkey Buzzard
Operation Ladbroke
Operation Fustian
Operation Husky
Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges
Operation Tonga
Operation Market Garden
Operation Varsity
Operation Dragoon
Commanders
Colonel CommandantThe Rt Hon Alan Francis (Brooke), 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG (1942-)
Insignia
Emblem of the British Airborne Forces

The Glider Pilot Regiment was a British airborne forces unit of the Second World War, which was responsible for crewing the British Army's military gliders and saw action in the European theatre in support of Allied airborne operations. Established during the war in 1942, the regiment was disbanded in 1957.