US WW2 326th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division Officers Brass

Major General Matthew Ridgway, was, on August 15, 1942, redesignated to the 82nd Airborne Division and the 326th was redesignated as the 326th Glider Infantry Regiment and converted into glider infantry, being trained to enter combat by military glider. The 326th GIR, with the rest of the 82nd Airborne Division, soon moved to Fort Bragg and commenced training in airborne warfare tactics. The division was to take part in the Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky. However, due to a severe shortage of gliders, which were necessary to take both glider regiments into combat, the 82d Airborne Division was reorganized and the 326th, being the junior glider regiment, was transferred out of the 82d and replaced by the 505th PIR.The 326th left Fort Bragg and was sent to train at Alliance, Nebraska, by the Alliance Army Airbase, and soon, alongside the 88th GIR, became part of the 1st Airborne Infantry Brigade.