Army Ground Forces Study No. 4

 

THOUSANDS
2,000
       

TABLE V

GROUND COMBAT UNITS MOBILIZED AFTER 1942

 

Mobilized on
31 Dec 42

Mobilized on
30 Apr 45

Added after
1942

Divisions

Infantry

56

67*

11

Armored

14

16

2

Airborne

2

5

3

Non-Divisional Battalions

Heavy Artillery

32

137

105

Medium Artillery

53

113

60

Light Artillery

57

76

19

Total

142

326

184

Engineer (Combat and Heavy Ponton)

69

224

155

Tank

26

62

36

 

*Includes one Mountain Division

These units were added with a net increase of 124,000 enlisted men for combat units of the Army Ground Forces after 1942 (See Table V). Addition of so many combat units with so little increase of total combat strength was made possible by inactivation of combat units of other types (antiaircraft, tank destroyer, coast artillery, non-divisional infantry) and by reduction of unit tables of organization

SOURCE: Troop Basis of 23 February 1943 and 1 May 1945(S), For Basis of computation of Table V see Study No. 3.

 

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