Editing Battle of Arnhem (section)

===Allied casualties===
The battle was a costly defeat and the 1st Airborne Division never recovered. Three-quarters of the division were missing when it returned to England, including two of the three brigade commanders, eight of the nine battalion commanders and 26 of the 30 infantry company commanders.<ref name="Middlebrook, p445">Middlebrook, p. 445</ref> About 500 men were in hiding north of the Rhine and many of these were able to escape during the winter, initially in Operation Pegasus.<ref name="Waddy, p166"/> New recruits, escapees and repatriated POWs joined the division over the coming months but the division was still so understrength that the 4th Parachute Brigade had to merge with the 1st Parachute Brigade; the division could barely produce two brigades of infantry.<ref name="Middlebrook, p445"/> Between May and August 1945, many of the men were sent to Denmark and Norway to oversee [[Operation Doomsday]], the German surrenders; on their return the division was disbanded.<ref name="Middlebrook, p446">Middlebrook, p. 446</ref><ref name=Middlebrook447>Middlebrook, p. 447</ref> The Glider Pilot Regiment suffered the highest proportion of fatalities during the battle (17.3 per cent) and was so depleted that in [[Operation Varsity]], RAF pilots flew many of the gliders.<ref name=Middlebrook439>Middlebrook, p. 439</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.assaultgliderproject.co.uk/GPR.html |title=The Assault Glider Trust&nbsp;– RAF Glider Pilots |access-date=9 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619170132/http://www.assaultgliderproject.co.uk/gpr.html |archive-date=19 June 2008  }}</ref> As glider operations were abolished after the war, the regiment shrank and was eventually disbanded in 1957.<ref name=Middlebrook447/>

{| align="left" class="wikitable"
|+Allied airborne units<ref name=Middlebrook439/>
|-
! Unit
!Killed in action/<br>died of wounds
!Captured/<br>missing
!Withdrawn
!&nbsp;&nbsp;Total&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;
|-
|align="left"|[[1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)|1st Airborne]]
|align="right"|1,174
|align="right"|5,903
|align="right"|1,892
|align="right"|8,969
|-
|align="left"|[[Glider Pilot Regiment]]
|align="right"| 219
|align="right"| 511
|align="right"| 532
|align="right"|1,262
|-
|align="left"|[[Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade|Polish Brigade]]
|align="right"| 92
|align="right"| 111
|align="right"|1,486
|align="right"|1,689
|-
|align="left"|'''Total'''
|align="right"|'''1,485'''
|align="right"|'''6,525'''
|align="right"|'''3,910'''
|align="right"|—
|-
|}
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{| align="left" class="wikitable"
|+Other Allied losses<ref>Middlebrook, pp. 462–464</ref>
|-
! Unit
!Killed in action/<br />died of wounds
!Captured/<br />missing
|-
|align="left"|[[RAF]]
|align="right"|368
|align="right"|79
|-
|align="left"|[[Royal Army Service Corps]]
|align="right"|79
|align="right"|44
|-
|align="left"|[[IX Troop Carrier Command]]
|align="right"|27
|align="right"|6
|-
|align="left"| [[XXX Corps (United Kingdom)|XXX Corps]]
|align="right"|25
|align="right"|200
|-
|align="left"|'''Total'''
|align="right"|'''499'''
|align="right"|'''329'''
|-
|}

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