24th Airborne Division (France)

24th Airborne Division 24^e Division Aéroportée

Active	1945 - 1945
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Airbrone Division
Role	Airborne Infantry
Size	1^e R.C.P 2^e R.C.P 1^er R.I.C.A.P 1/8^e R.C.C 11^e R.A 61^e G.A.F.T.A 79^e B.G
Commanders
Notable commanders	Général Bonjour
Insignia
Abbreviation	24^e D.A.P

The 24th Airborne Division, (French: 24^e Division Aéroportée, 24^e D.A.P) was a unit of the French Army, infantry dominated, specialized in airborne combats and air assaults. Constituted on July 1945, the Division existed ephemerally and during the dissolution in October of the same year, a significant amount of the Division's constitution would be seen transferred to the 25th Airborne Division in lieu recently of being constituted.

This Division, first of a kind and genre in France, was constituted on July 16, 1945 based on the American model of U.S. Airborne Division formations. The forming infantry components of the Division were based on the active paratrooper units present in the Air Force, figuring components of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment 1^e R.C.P, the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment 2^e R.C.P, the 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment 3^e R.C.P, the 4^e R.I.A S.A.S and the 1st Choc Airborne Infantry Regiment 1^er R.I.C.A.P, constituting the Choc Battalions B.C of the 1st Army with other forming infantry contingents from other active Divisions.

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