| Glider Pilot Regiment | |
|---|---|
 A Dutch school damaged by mortar fire, being searched for German snipers by Sergeant J Whawell and Sergeant J Turrell of the Glider Pilot Regiment | |
| Active | 21 December 1941- 1 September 1957 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Type | Army Aviation |
| Role | Air transport and airborne infantry |
| Part of | Army Air Corps 1942-1949 Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps (1949-1957) |
| Motto(s) | Nihil est Impossibilis "Nothing is Impossible" |
| Colors | None issued |
| Engagements | invasion of Normandy Operation Market Garden Invasion of Sicily, Crossing of the Rhine |
| Battle honours | Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Merville Battery, Arnhem 1944, Rhine, Southern France, North-West Europe 1944-45, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943[1] |
| Commanders | |
| Colonel Commandant | The Rt Hon Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG (1942-) |
| Insignia | |
| Beret colour | Maroon |
The Glider Pilot Regiment was a specialist British unit of the Second World War which was responsible for crewing the British Army's gliders in airborne operations. The regiment was established in 1942 and saw action in the European Theatre of World War II, before being disbanded in 1957 with its personnel transferred to the Army Air Corps.
- ^ Baker, pp. 312, 314-5, 317-8, 329-30