1 Summary for "TOTAL" is
taken from: (11 OPD Weekly Status Map, 3 Dec
42: (2) Army Service Forces Statistical Review,
App G : (3) AAF Statistical Digest,
Table 1: (4) SYMBOL: Casablanca Books, Vol
II, Exec 6 and (5) Monthly Strength of the
Army
2 Certain divisions and combat groups
were not complete For the shipment of divisions
overseas in 1942 see Appendix E, below The
number of air combat groups overseas, a year
after Pearl Harbor, varies in different compilations
The difficulties of arriving at an exact figure
for the first week in December 1942 are increased
by the necessity of adding incomplete groups,
converting lists of squadrons to the equivalent
number of groups or parts of groups, and taking
into account at least one group in transit
to the United States The figure 66-used here
is based on the AAF Statistical Digest total
for 30 November 1942
3 The strength figures for the ETO
are only estimated in the Weekly Status Map
of 3 December, since there was some confusion
and lag in reporting units en route from the
British Isles to North Africa
As of 21 December, strength figures (present)
were
British Isles
Iceland
AGE
77, 668
24,797
SOS
43,549
10,385
AAF
51,212
3,142
Total
12,429
38,324
Projected
422,460
51,700
Source: Memo, OPD for CofS, 30 Dec
42, sub: Troop Strength in ETO, SYMBOL: Casablanca
Books, Vol 11, Exec 6
5 As of 21 December strength figures
(present) were: AGE, 141,409: SOS, 2,566; AAF,
33,812; total, 177,787 The total projected
as of 21 December was 450,000 (Memo cited n
3)
6 1st and 2d Armored Divisions: 1st,
3d, 9th, and 34th Infantry Divisions Only elements
of the 2d Armored and 9th Infantry Divisions
were present
7 The 24th, 25th, 27th, and 40th Infantry
Divisions The 25th Infantry Division began
moving to Guadalcanal from Hawaii on 25 November
1942 and arrived on 17 December 1942
8 The Americal, 37th, and 43d Infantry
Divisions The Americal Division left New York
as a task force and was constituted and organized
as a division after its arrival in New Caledonia