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To: Tallguy
good point.

Really, any history of the war that I've read, though, talks about high attrition rates in the combat units.

12 posted on 06/04/2009 1:45:25 PM PDT by wbill
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To: wbill

WW2 units were organized on a “tiangular” basis. A division was made up of 3 regiments, and a regimental combat team typically had 3 battalions, and so on. The prefered deployment scheme was “2 up, 1 back”. In extreme cases all RCT’s might be on-line, but then a sister division was probably contributing to the theater reserve.


21 posted on 06/04/2009 2:06:25 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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