Mountain Warfare?

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Lucky13

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How common or uncommon was it in WWII?

Did the Allies have any trained troops like the German Wehrmacht 1st Mountain Division?

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France : 27th Alpine Division, disbanded in 1940, reformed on september 1944 from various Resistance outfits that were rebaptised with traditional Alpine Infantry units numbers.

Were also used notably in Italy, then in France and Germany the Moroccan Goums formed from indigenous of the mountains tribes of Morocco, with French cadres. My wife's uncle served as a radio operator with them in Italy. The mules were their main mean of transport.
Onr Goum = a company ;
Three Goums + supports elements = a Tabor (battalion ;
Three Tabors + HQ = a Groupe de Tabors Marocains (GTM) = a regiment ; there were 4 GTM formed during WW 2.
 

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