'Boxer' was an Allied unrealised plan to land major elements of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1^st Airborne Army (Major General R. E. Urquhart’s British 1^st Airborne Division, Major General E. Hakewill-Smith’s British 52^nd Division, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor’s US 101^st Airborne Division, and Major General Stanisław Sosabowski’s Polish 1^st Parachute Brigade) in the Boulogne area of German-occupied France in order to find and destroy the launch sites for V-1 flying bombs (August 1944).