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5th Airborne Artillery Campaign Regiment

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Active
  
1946 - 1949

Branch
  
French Army

Role
  
Airborne Artillery

Country
  
France

Type
  
Artillery Regiment

Motto(s)
  
Jusqu’à la mort

The 5th Airborne Artillery Campaign Regiment, (French: 5e Régiment d'Artillerie de Campagne Aéroporté, 5e RACAP) was an airborne artillery unit of the French Army dissolved presently. Divisionary artillery regiment of the 25th Airborne Division, the regiment was heir to the 5th Artillery Regiment (French: 5e Régiment d'Artillerie, 5e R.A) of France. Elements passed to the 20th Light Parachute Artillery Regiment (French: 20e Régiment d'Artillerie Légère Parachutiste, 20e R.A.L.P), then to the 8th Artillery Regiment (French: 8e Régiment d'Artillerie, 8e R.A).

Founded in 1946 under the designation of 5e R.A.P, the regiment would eventually bear the designation of R.A.C.A.P.

The regiment was composed of batteries equipped with diverse materials (wheeled cannon type 75mm, British 88mm, the U.S. cannon type 37mm anti-tank and the U.S. cannon type 75mmm) along with other anti-aircraft type equipments.

References

5th Airborne Artillery Campaign Regiment Wikipedia