The instructions made necessary a division of the paratroop formations into several squads. On 8 November Koch decided that there should be four: Witzig’s pioneers and three assault squads all having an anti-tank gun, a flame-thrower, one pioneer group, four groups with light MGs and three rifle groups. Two groups were planned for the capture of the Wilhelmina bridge at Maastricht⁷ but this objective was later discarded.

In view of the various tasks distributed above, Witzig initiated a training program for his pioneers involving the use of flame-throwers, hollow charges and other explosive materials. Each course was led by an expert in the field. Meanwhile, Koch’s paratroopers still needed time to perfect their attack techniques. The idea had been under consideration to destroy the detonators and detonator systems on the bridges by pinpoint Stuka strikes but this concept, as will be seen, had no future.