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Army Ground Forces Study No. 4
TABLE II
DEPLOYMENT OF THE ARMY
Reported Actual Strengths In Principal Theaters
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20 November 1918
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30 April 1945
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In Europe
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European |
Mediter-
ranean Theater |
European &
Mediter- ranean Theater Combined |
Southwest
Pacific Area |
Pacific
Ocean Theater |
China &
India-Burma Theaters |
Principal
Theaters Combined |
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| Divisions |
678,146
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819,342
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102,485
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921,827
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183,798
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80,834
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1,186,459
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Divisions | |
| Non-divisional Combat Troops |
507,912
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595,418
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37,797
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633,215
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113,318
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102,076
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15,766
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864,375
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Non-Divisional Combat Units* |
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| Total Ground Combat Troops |
1,186,058
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1,414,660
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140,282
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1,555,042
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297,118
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182,910
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15,766
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2,050,835
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Total Ground Combat Units | |
| Non-divisional Service Troops |
464,497
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828,726
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128,307
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957,033
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214,835
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142,579
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69,898
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1,384,345
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Non-divisional Service Units | |
| Air Service |
78,804
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439,425
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153,005
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592,430
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173,343
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75,438
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90,949
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932,160**
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Army Air Forces | |
| Replacements |
34,970
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171,933
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34,551
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206,484
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34,203
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20,371
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4,355
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265,423
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Replacements | |
| Patients in SOS Hospitals |
82,013
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128,305
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15,679
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143,984
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41,135
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6,423
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1,439
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192,981
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Patients | |
| Unclassified |
116,934
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27,598
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4,972
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32,570
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29,500
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19,851
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10,447
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131,636
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Overhead | |
| Army in Europe |
1,963,276
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3,065,505
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493,876
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3,559,381
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12,372
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3,380
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5,966
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54,288
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Miscellaneous | |
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802,504
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450,952
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198,830
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5,011,667
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Army in Principal Theaters |
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| Per Cent Ratio of Ground Combat to Total Army (3,704,630) |
53.1
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37.0
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6.0
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43.0
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9.7
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5.4
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2.4
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60.4
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Per Cent Ratio of Army in Principal Theaters to Total Army (8,290,993) | |
| Per Cent Ration of Ground Combat Troops in Europe to all Ground Combat Troops in Army (1,660,011) |
71.4
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63.4
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6.3
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69.7
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13.3
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8.2
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0.7
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91.9
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Per Cent Ratio of Ground Combat Units in Principal Theaters to All Ground Combat Units in Army (2,333,854) | |
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SOURCES: For 1918: See Table I |
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* Including as combat units all engineer, signal and chemical units to AGF type. |
| For 1945: Strength Reports of the Army, Vol. 11, 1 May 1945 (S), Strength Reporting Office of the Chief of Staff. |
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** In addition Air Forces aggregating approximately 200,000, under direct command of the commanding general of the Army Air Forces, were engaged in oversees operations, chiefly in Pacific, without being assigned to a theater. |
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