I need an answer for this question.
Did the British Airborne use gliders our parachutes?

While playing Call of Duty you will noticed that you are in a glider.

PS: If they used gliders. Why did they used gliders?

I really want to know.

Records from September 1944 show that 20, 000 troops carried by 2043 transport planes (C47) and horsa gliders.
Your question is did they parachute or glide in? Both, Some glided in and some dropped.
1st Airbiorne Division used motorized jeep units inorder to take the bridge at Arnhem quickly. Unfortanely, 2 SS Panzer divisions had been recalled to Arnhem. the 1st Airborne had to march to Arnhem by foot.

okey. So we can say that they used gliders and C-47. Thanks for the answer.

C47 transport planes towed the british made horsa gliders. 1ST BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION deployed using gliders. Much of the 101st dropped into Holland. The Brits had greatest number of troops for the operation, so Eisenhower appointed Montgomery to carryout MarketGarden.

Here's a site that should clear up some of the confusion. The parachute brigades jumped in. The airlanding brigades and support equipment came in by glider.

http://www.arnhemarchive.org/order_1st.htm

The primary glider tugs were Stirlings, Halifaxes and Albermarles, and Dakotas

British 1st Airborne Division

I'm English American. My dad was in the British Army. How do you think the 101st would have held out in Arnhem. Air assault were perfect for Hells Highway and fought fiercely against german counterattacks. The 1st Airborne were trapped in Arnhem, no arty, nor air support, misupply drops...

I don`t think any airborne units would have held out any longer at Arnhem not against 2 SS panzer Divisions,they wouldn`t have had the anti-tank capability.

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I don`t think any airborne units would have held out any longer at Arnhem not against 2 SS panzer Divisions,they wouldn`t have had the anti-tank capability.

Air support for the airborne invaders would have pushed back the SS panzer divisions and if the Polish Airborne brigade replinished the British troops at Arnhem they may have been able to hold an extra 48 hours, to be relieved by XXX corp. Remember the 1st Airborne divsion were only meant to hold for 48 hours. They held for 9 days 7 days longer than ordered and against 2 Elite german tank division.

i think the allies had wone market garden when the used the dutch resistance like they used the france resistance in normandy because when they had used them they had know that they dropped there 1st british airborne division right on a panzer division