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I Airborne Corps (United Kingdom)
The I Airborne Corps was an airborne forces corps raised by the British Army during the Second World War. Together with the US XVIII Airborne Corps it was part of the First Allied Airborne Army.
==Formation==
Under the command of Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, the ''I Airborne Corps'' was formed in 1943, with the 1st and the 6th Airborne divisions.〔Horn and Wyczynski, p.294〕 In August 1944, the corps became part of the First Allied Airborne Army, alongside the US XVIII Airborne Corps.〔
Later in the war as well as the 1st and 6th Airborne divisions, the corps had the 1st Special Air Service Brigade, the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade and the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division an air-transportable division under corps command.〔Otway, p.202〕〔Otway, p.210〕 Other units assigned to the corps were the US 82nd, and US 101st Airborne divisions during Operation Market Garden. Lieutenant-General Richard Nelson Gale, who had previously commanded the 6th Airborne Division, took command of the corps in December 1944.〔(Richard Gale ) Pegassus archive〕
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