For Operation Dracula, an ad hoc parachute battalion group made up of personnel from the 153 and 154 ( Gurkha ) Parachute Battalions of the Indian Army secured Japanese coastal defences, which enabled the seaborne assault by the 26th Indian Division to attain its objectives with a minimum of casualties and time.

The 1st and 3rd Battalions, 187th Infantry, bearing the lineages of the former Co A and Co C, 187AIR, are now with the 101st Airborne Division as air assault units.

On 23 November, the 2nd and 4th Battalions of the 503rd were ordered to renew their assault while the 1st Battalion of the 12th Infantry assaulted 875 from the south.

As the 37th and 43rd Battalions led the advance towards the German lines, supported by small teams of mortarmen and machine gunners, the Germans launched their own attack, however, the Australian assault had taken them by surprise and after some initial resistance, the German assault troops began to fall back or surrender.

Due to the small front along which the attack was to be launched, the initial assault was to be undertaken in three waves by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions while the 1st Battalion was to remain back at Brown's Dip in reserve, ready to be brought up to consolidate any gains or respond in the event of a counterattack.

On the afternoon of 21 August the first assault was made by Australians of the 13th and 14th Battalions together with the 5th Battalion of the Connaught Rangers.

In October 1983, 1st and 2nd Battalions spearheaded Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada by conducting a bold low-level parachute assault to seize Point Salines Airfield and rescue American citizens at True Blue Medical Campus.

It is used by USMC Assault Amphibian Battalions to land the surface assault elements of the landing force and their equipment in a single lift from assault shipping during amphibious operations to inland objectives and to conduct mechanized operations and related combat support in subsequent mechanized operations ashore.

On 6 August 1915, an assault on the " impregnable " Turkish position at Lone Pine was launched by the men of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions, 1st Australian Brigade, with the 1st Battalion in reserve.

Before the assault could come, however, on the night of 13 / 14 September, the 25th Brigade — consisting of the 2 / 25th, 2 / 31st and 2 / 33rd Battalions — arrived to relieve the remnants of the 21st Brigade.

Joining Ampudia at this engagement were reinforcements from Mexico City totaling 3, 140 men: 1, 080 men of the Garcia-Conde Brigade ( Aguascalientes and Querétaro Battalions, two squadrons 3d Line Cavalry, three guns ), a thousand men of the Azpeitia Brigade ( 3d Line, two squadrons Jalisco lancers, two squadrons Guanajuato Cavalry Regiment, six guns and an Ambulance ), 1, 060 men of the Simeon Ramirez Brigade ( 3d and 4th Light, three guns & 3 howitzers 7 ") and an artillery unit, the largely Irish-American volunteers for Mexico called San Patricios ( or the Saint Patrick's Battalion ), in their first major engagement against U. S. forces.

Jose M. Herrera ) Battalions and 3 guns ( Lt Juan Expejo ),-3.

P. Ampudia arrived with more reinforcements ( 2, 200 men: Mexico Light and 8th Line Cavalry Regiments, 4th Line Infantry, Mexico, Puebla & Morelia Activo Battalions and 6 guns ).

Armed with machine guns and flamethrowers, the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Battalions would at first be aided only by a few tanks and a single howitzer.

Gen. Jose Durán with 1, 030 men and 135 guns: Artillery, Puebla and Jamiltepec Activo Battalions, Companies of Tuxpan, Tampico and Alvardo Activo Battalions.

Represented were the remnants of the Division of the North ( 5, 650 total: 150 Artillery, 4, 000 Infantry and 1, 500 Cavalry: the Ampudia Brigade ( the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 11th Line Infantry Regiments ), the Vasquez Brigade ( the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Light Infantry Regiments ) and the Juvera Cavalry Brigade ( 5th, 9th Morelia and the Coraceros Cavalry Regiments ); plus reinforcements from the Capitol: the Rangel Brigade ( the 6th Infantry Regiment, Grenadiers of the Guard, Libertad and Galeana Battalions, two Cavalry Squadrons and eight guns ), the Pinzon Brigade, the Arteaga Brigade ( the Puebla Activo and Natl Guards Battalions ) and the Canalizo Special Cavalry Division.

It also has modernized Russian 12. 7 mm anti-air machine guns ( as do other Battalions ) and the light 81 mm mortars ( though these are trained in the Artillery Regiment ).

Leaving chef de bataillon Servière to hold Lang Son with a single company of the 2nd African Battalion and Martin and Roussel's batteries, and stationing the 23rd Line Battalion at Dong Dang to protect his supply line, he advanced to the Chinese frontier at Zhennanguan on the morning of 23 March with a force of only 1, 600 men and 10 guns ( the 111th and 143rd Line Battalions, the 2nd and 3rd Legion Battalions and Roperh and de Saxcé's batteries ).

The Habsburg forces: 5, 000 infantry ( 10 Battalions ), 5, 900 cavalry ( 27 escadrons ), 10 guns

The Holy Roman forces: 6, 200 infantry ( 6 Battalions ), 1, 200 cavalry ( 9 escadrons ), 14 guns

Counter Insurgency Battalions are the exception as they usually have around 300 soldiers, and are commanded by a Major.

An Infantry Brigade usually has 3 Infantry Battalions along with various Support Arms & Services.

Battalion Aid Stations, Forward Support Medical Battalions and Forward Surgical Teams are usually the first point of contact medical care for wounded soldiers.

Battalions of a regiment are typically abbreviated as, for example, " 4 – 37 AR BN ", which is usually verbalized as " Four Three Seven Armor " ( but sometimes as " 4th of the 37th Armor " ( archaic )).

The United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions ( or commonly called Marine Division Recon ) are the reconnaissance assets of Marine Air-Ground Task Force that provide division-level ground and amphibious reconnaissance to the Ground Combat Element within the United States Marine Corps.

Similarly, the urban environment of West Berlin prompted the Army to keep the weapon with the 4th, 5th and 6th Battalions of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, Berlin Brigade as late as winter of 1991 ; the M47 Dragon replaced it in January 1992.

In August 1938, a complete re-organization of the Army Air Service resulted in the creation of the, which replaced all of the former Air Battalions and Air Regiments.

Traditionally, the regular battalions were the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the militia ( later Special Reserve ) battalion was the 3rd Battalion, and the Territorial Army battalions were the 4th Battalion and up.

Such was the demand that the single battalion became two in 1740 ( the 1st Regiment ), three battalions in 1744, four in 1767 ( forming a 2nd Regiment ) and in 1776 a third regiment ( 5th and 6th Battalions ) was raised.

The 1st and 3rd Battalions deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division in 2003 and again in 2005 – 06, with one battalion falling under the 42nd Infantry Division.

The 3rd and 4th Ranger Battalions, were authorized shortly after and were trained and led by veteran officers and NCOs from the first battalion.

In early April 1945, Krukenberg now commanded only about 700 men organized into a single infantry regiment with two battalions ( Battalions 57 and 58 ) and one heavy support battalion, without equipment.

In 1948 the 1st and 2nd Battalions were amalgamated into a single battalion, the 1st Battalion.

The rifle was used by what were considered elite units, such as the 5th battalion, and rifle companies of the 6th and 7th Battalions, of the 60th Regiment of Foot, that were deployed around the world, the three battalions of the 95th Regiment of Foot that served under the Duke of Wellington between 1808 and 1814 in the Peninsular War, the War of 1812 ( 3rd Batt ./ 95th ( Rifles ), at Battle of New Orleans ), and again in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo.

However, when the 2nd Battalions of the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards and Scots Guards were put in suspended animation, a decision to replace one of the three Foot Guard battalions then engaged on public duties by a line infantry battalion was taken, so as to enable the Foot Guards battalion to increase the proportion of its effort employed on training for operational roles.

It was said that by the time they were committed to action, his 7th and 8th Battalions were better trained than any AIF battalion before them.

Together, elements of the Viet Cong 261st and 514th Battalions in Ap Tan Thoi and Ap Bac formed a ' composite battalion ', which was placed under the commander of Colonel Hai Hoang.

The 3rd Battalion was a light infantry battalion stationed at St George's Barracks, North Luffenham in Rutland before being amalgamated with the 1st and 2nd Battalions.

It originally consisted of two regular battalions ( the 41st Foot and 69th Foot becoming the 1st and 2nd battalions respectively ), one Militia battalion ( the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry ) and four Volunteer battalions ( 1st ( Pembrokeshire ), 2nd ( Glamorgan ) and 3rd ( Glamorgan ) Volunteer Battalions and the 3rd Glamorganshire Volunteer Rifle Corps ).

:* Amalgamated battalion ( Grenadier and Cazadores Companies from Battalions Burgos, Concepción, Infante and Arequipa )

He said Oberstleutnant Müller arrived on the evening of June 6 in the area north of Azeville-St Marcouf with regimental troops of the 922nd Grenadier Regiment, the engineer battalion of the 243rd Infantry Division, and the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 922nd Grenadier Regiment ( not a battalion from the 920th Grenadier Regiment ).

On July 1, 1967, the battalion was split into two and both brought up to strength as the 9th and the 10th Para Commando Battalions.

On 1 July 1970, when the 1st and 2nd Battalions were reduced to nil strength and transferred to the Supplementary Order of Battle, the Reserve Force battalion automatically relinquished its numerical designation.

Elements of the 2 / 14th and 2 / 16th Battalions accompanying Potts later managed to regroup as a composite battalion for the defence of Imita Ridge, but the 2 / 27th, feared lost, only managed to rejoin a fortnight later, after the Japanese retreat began, having made a difficult trek over the mountains to Jawarere east of Ilolo.

# Battalions, flexible: one design for each TOE battalion.

7ID sent one infantry battalion at a time to augment the 3rd Brigade, 2ID, this increased the defense to four Battalions on the line plus the quick-reaction forces.

It was during this time ( 23 September ) that the 19th, 21st and 25th Battalions were disbanded to make up the strength of the other battalions in their brigades, resulting in the 2nd Division following the same organisational structure ( as a 9 battalion division ) as British divisions of the British Expeditionary Force.

On 16 June 1969, the 6th Gurkhas was reduced to a single battalion, when the 1st and 2nd Battalions were amalgamated as the 1st Battalion.