XVIII Airborne Corps

Corps · United States · from January 14, 1942 · inactive October 15, 1945 – May 21, 1951

The US corps on the coalition's western flank, which swept deep into Iraq to the Euphrates.

March 24, 1945 17th Airborne Division Under this formation at Operation Varsity (Wikipedia infobox)
March 24, 1945 6th Airborne Division Under this formation at Operation Varsity (Wikipedia infobox)
February 23, 1991 – February 28, 1991 French 6th Light Armoured Division

September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
June 5–7, 1944 Operation Tonga
June 6, 1944 Operation Mallard
June 6, 1944 Battle of Merville Gun Battery
June 6 – August 29, 1944 Normandy landings
June 6, 1944 Capture of the Caen Canal and Orne River bridges
June 6, 1944 – July 1944 Invasion of Normandy
June 13, 1944 Battle of Bréville
August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge
February 8 – March 27, 1945 Rhineland Offensive
March 22 – May 8, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany
March 24, 1945 Operation Varsity
April 28, 1965 – September 1966 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)
October 25 – December 15, 1983 United States invasion of Grenada
December 20, 1989 – January 31, 1990 United States invasion of Panama
August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991 Operation Desert Shield
August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991 Gulf War
August 8, 1990 – January 16, 1991 The 82nd Airborne Division arrives first Map
January 20, 1991 – February 23, 1991 Shifts west to the Iraqi border near Rafha Map
February 24, 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign Strikes deep into Iraq Map
February 26, 1991 Reaches the Euphrates valley Map
February 28, 1991 West of Basra at the ceasefire (approximate) Map
September 11, 2001 War on terror
March 20, 2003 – December 18, 2011 Iraq War
January 1, 2015 – August 30, 2021 War in Afghanistan (2015–2021)