RE: Late-war US and German OOB questions
Let me take a stab at a US armoured division. My American unit knowledge is fairly weak so someone out there will be able to correct my mistakes, but this should be fairly close.
The 2nd and 3rd Armoured divisions were not reorganised in '44-'45 and maintained an organization that should be classed as a Heavy Armoured Division. The make up was:
-2x Armoured Regiment
with each Regiment having 1x light Tank battalion, and 2x medium tank battalions.
-1x Armoured Infantry Regiment
having 3x Armoured Infantry Battalions
-1x Cavalry Battalion
-1x Self Propelled Tank Destroyer Battalion
-3x Self Propelled Artillery Battalions
-1x AA Battalion
-1x Engineer Battalion
A light tank battalion is 3 companies of 15x M5 each, and an HQ of ??1-2 M5?? for each company.
A medium tank battalion is 3 companies of 15x M4 each, and a HQ of ??1-2?? M4 for each company.
About 50 tanks per company total. I can not tell you the make up of what model tanks and how many of each as this is just some general information that i have.
The Cavalry would be Armoured cavalry with M8's.
The Engineer Battalion would be lifted by Halftrack.
I do not have a clue what made up the AA Battalion. Would guess to be Self propelled M-16/M-15's with a towed heavy component of 90mm AA Guns.
The TD Battalion would be predominantly M18 with 1, maybe two platoons of M10's per company. It has 3 companies with 3 platoons each with 4x M18/M10's per platoon.
SP Arty would be 3 batteries of 6x 105mm pieces. with 2 SPG's per platoon.
Someone please correct the mistakes and ommisions that I have made, I will look and see if I can find any more information.
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