190^th Glider Infantry Regiment

The 190th Glider Infantry Regiment had no combat service in World War II. It was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on August 13, 1943, and assigned to the 13th Airborne Division during the Army's continued wartime development of airborne division organization. Like the 189th Glider Infantry, it belonged to a short phase in which the Army was adjusting the number and arrangement of glider and parachute infantry regiments within airborne formations.

The regiment remained a stateside organizational unit. It did not deploy, did not receive campaign credit, and did not enter combat. Its active existence lasted less than four months. On December 4, 1943, the 190th Glider Infantry was disbanded at Fort Bragg. The division continued to evolve after that point, eventually building its overseas organization around other airborne infantry regiments.

The later history of the 13th Airborne Division helps define what the 190th did not do. The division arrived in France on February 6, 1945 and was held for possible employment in the final phase of the European war. It was not used in Operation Varsity, the airborne drop east of the Rhine on March 24, because available airlift was insufficient for an additional airborne division. The division remained in France and never entered combat. The 190th, however, had already disappeared from the order of battle before the division reached that stage.

The regiment was a non-combat wartime airborne regiment whose record is administrative rather than operational. It had no overseas movement, no campaign credit, and no tactical role in the final 13th Airborne Division organization that reached France in 1945. Its history is still worth retaining because it marks one stage in the Army's wartime experimentation with glider infantry structure before the airborne division tables settled into their later form.