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Originally Posted by Panther Al
Not having any of the v1 stuff I wasn't sure if any stayed behind or not.
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Going Home states on Page 3 that approximately 43,000 Americans remained in Europe prior to the evacuation.
The following units remained in Europe:
XI Corp (staying) consisting of:
50th US AD (2,000 men, 33 AFVs)
4th Canadian (not quite US, but...) (1,000 men, 6 AFVs)
116th ACR (600 men, 8 AFVs)
2nd US Marines (3,400 men, 14 AFVs)
8th US MD (1,000 men, 14 AFVs)
III Corps HQ (staying):
1st US CD (2,400 men, 43 AFVs )(+ 600 men and 5 AFVs which have left to join the evac)
30 Bde, 44th US AD (300 men, 9 AFVs)
3rd US ACR (100 men, 1 AFV)
V Corps (mostly evacuating except for)
11th ACR (500 men, 4 AFVs)
Fourth US Army HQ (staying)
XIII Corp HQ (staying)
1-40th US MD (400 men, 7 AFVs)
107th US ACR (600 men)
XV Corps (HQ leaving)
70 US ID (2,000 men, 6 AFVs)
And then there's the 5th MD scattered across Europe (some will evac, but most probably not).
So, adding them up there are approximately 12,200 men (not including the Canadians) and 139 AFVs (again not including the Canadians).
Note that this does not include the Corps and Army HQ units manpower.
So we're looking at roughly one quarter of the US manpower staying behind and about 35% of all US AFVs remaining in US hands.