Timeline
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During November 1944
82nd et 101st Airborne Division: ordered to rest -
Beginning of February 1944
Operation Neptune, Overlord's assault phase, is launched -
February 8 1944
Major General William C. Lee is replaced temporarily -
February 15 1944
The 82nd Airborne Division settles in England -
February 28 1944
The IX Troop Carrier Command's US Airborne Pathfinder School settles in England -
March 1st 1944
The Airborne Command becomes the Airborne Center -
March 14 1944
Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor is appointed commander in chief of the 101st Airborne Division -
End of March 1944
The 504th PIR joins England -
April 1944
Creation of Airborne ghost units -
May 18 1944
Jump zones assignment -
May 28 1944
D-Day goal changes -
Night of the 5 to 6 June 1944
Diversion operation named Titanic -
June 6 1944
Mission Boston -
June 6 through 7 1944
Gliders landing -
July 3 and 4 1944
Drop in Dutch New-Guinea -
July 10 1944
The 101st Airborne Division returns to England -
July 13 through 14 1944
The 82nd Airborne Division returns to England -
August 2nd 1944
Activation of the 1st Allied Airborne Army -
August 15 1944
Operation Dragoon -
August 27 1944
Nominations de Ridgway et Gavin et Rattachement du 507th PIR -
September 17 1944
Landing in Holland -
End of October 1944
Brigadier General James M. Gavin receives his second Major General star -
November 29 and December 5 1944
Drop-off in the Philippines -
December 17 and 18 1944
Positioning around the village of Bastogne
End of March 1944
The 504th PIR joins England
End of March 1944: The 504th PIR joins the 82nd Airborne Division in England