Replacement vehicles (at least for the US, UK, and Canada) would be shipped into Holland or Denmark, and then offloaded from their ships, and loaded onto rail flatcarsand from there they would be moved to theatre logistical units. Then they would be cascaded down to Army, Corps, Divisional direct support units on tank transporters and flatbeds to the recieving units. All recovered friendly battle damaged vehicles would be moved in reverse with the intention of repairing them and returning them to service at each level, and only passing the vehicles back if they could not be repaired at a given level. Vehicles deemed to be a total loss at each stage of evacuation would be pulled out of the evacuation chain and stipped at that level for any salvage parts (I have IRL pulled road wheels of off M113 target vehicles to replace road wheels on my NG M113 damaged during annual training).
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