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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
You know, the really intresting thing about the German Army was not that it was able to keep forming new divisions...it was their ability to organize and reorganize kampfgruppes made up of just about every type of odd sod and piece of equipment to throw back into the combat. It was only latter in the war that the US Army started to perfrom at the same level...anybody remember Team SNAFU?
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Yeah but what more interesting is the US Army OOB that I had one time that had units history for US Divisions and Regiments. It was surprising the number independent Infantry Regiments were attached regular Divisions and also the regularity that some Division detached units from their organization.
Also interesting are the Medium Armor Divisions in which they had 3 Armor and 3 Armor Infantry/Mechanized Battalions that were placed into Combat Command A, Combat Command B, and later in the war officially Combat Command Reserve. In the end these resembled the modern Heavy Brigades. Where as the 2nd and 3rd Armor Division retained their original 2 Armor Regiments and 1 Armored/Mechanized Infantry Regiment...
Also with the Armor Divisions specially usually had Combat Command detach to this Corps or that Division to add fire power at times.