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To: jmacusa

From my links and the Excel spreadsheet I have done on the divisions, I computed the 84th casualties at 52% overall and 168% in their rifle platoons. They entered the ETO in November 1944 and fought through April 1945. VE day was early May. Those rates of loss place the division among the most heavily involved in the last six months of the war.


11 posted on 11/11/2015 5:41:32 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

My uncle was among that 168% wounded. He was sent as a replacement to the 84th. and arrived in Marche, Belgium on or about December 23,1944. He was wounded outside Soy, Belgium on 1/3/45. That got him out of the line and later reassigned to a transport unit. The 84th. was in the thick of it alright. They were what the Army classified as a ‘’’heavy’’ infantry unit in that they had larger numbers of troops in each regiment, their own ‘’organic’’(or divisional) artillery and a tank destroyer unit assigned to them.


12 posted on 11/11/2015 6:32:11 PM PST by jmacusa
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