Glider Pilot Regiment | |
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Active | 21 December 1941 – 1 September 1957 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Type | Army Aviation |
Role | Air transport and airborne infantry |
Size | Brigade |
Part of | Army Air Corps 1942–1949 Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps (1949–1957) |
Motto(s) | Nihil est Impossibilis "Nothing is Impossible" |
Engagements | Operation 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 Commandant | The 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.