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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Indeed.
My thoughts are in the final few hours the component units of the US 5th ID wouldn't have held anything back. Any ammo they had on hand would have been dumped on the attackers both in a desperate attempt to survive, and also to deny it to the enemy when they were finally overrun.
This may explain in part why the 124th didn't have much left afterwards too - the 5th's artillery took most of it out and a few ambushes of their supply vehicles took care of the rest.
Just a thought...
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Oh I agree on them getting captured ammo or equipment from the 5th - after all remember the set up - i.e. the 5th distributed all the fuel and ammo they had left so everyone had full loads and the artillery was going to shoot off everything they had left for the breakout - meaning there really wasnt anything left to capture
and the Soviet and Polish units that took it on the chin during the battle probably expended most of what they had just fighting for survival themselves