We will conclude our examination of unit organization with a look at the Allied Special Forces, involved in the campaign.

Today, the United States Army Special Forces have five primary missions: (1) unconventional warfare (the original and most important mission of Special Forces), (2) direct action, (3) special reconnaissance, (4) foreign internal defense, and (5) counter-terrorism. Allied special operations units in 1944 performed the first three of these missions, but primarily unconventional warfare—activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area.