PART V - GENERAL.

Throughout the history of the first fifty-seven days of this, the liberation of HOLLAND, little mention has been made of the supporting arms which made the successes of the 508th Parachute Infantry possible. Not enough credit can ever be given to the 319th FA Battalion. The
superior manner in which our artillery responded to every request, delivering fire promptly and accurately, made difficult tasks easy and often was the deciding factor. The men of Company D, 307th Engineer Battalion and Battery B, 80th AA AT Battalion, were not mentioned specifically in any of the foregoing accounts, but without their support much of this history would have been changed.

During the operations of the regiment with the British 50th Division, it had in support, in addition to the attached 319th FA Battalion, the 90th Field Regiment (British), elements of the 4.2 Mortar Company and Medium Machine Gun Companies of the 2nd Cheshire Regiment. An effective system of immediate retaliation fires was established enabling us to place fire on known enemy infantry positions on a retaliatory basis of three shots to one.