Thewas the light tank company in the British 6th Airborne Division's Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment. With 19 light tanks, the Light Tank Squadron was intended to support the division'sandin airborne operations and act as the division's spearhead in offensives. Just to air-deploy the tanks in the squadron, it'd require at least 19

During their existence, the Light Tank Squadrons were outfitted with the Tetrarch Mk. VII—an obsolete light tank that could be deployed via GAL. 49 Hamilcar heavy gliders—and during the Normandy breakout (August 1944) the Cromwell cruiser tank—not airborne. By 6 August, 2 of the squadron's 5 troops were fielding Cromwells. When the Regiment went into Belgium to counter the German offensive in the Ardennes, they were still deployed in Cromwells. By early Operation Varsity, the Tetrarchs had been replaced by the M22 Locust. However, by this time (after October 1944), the Light Tank Squadron was replaced by an 8-cruiser tank "Seaborne Party" contained within the regiment's Headquarters Troop and 2 Squadrons of 4 troops each (only one being outfitted with tanks, the others with Universal carriers). Thus, the regiment had a total of 4 cruiser tanks and 8 light tanks on paper after October 1944.