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...they are largely tied down by occupation, supply and housekeeping chores. Of the 89 divisions in service when Germany fell, the Army has only twelve left. Less than three are available to join the Marines in immediate action today, and all of them are in the U.S.: the understrength 2nd Armored and 2nd Infantry, the 82nd Airborne...
...when Eisenhower began his big assault on Germany's western frontier, he had about 100 first-rank U.S., British, Canadian and French combat divisions, against some 55 understrength German divisions. In armor he had at least a 3-to-1 numerical superiority. In the air his superiority approached infinity. On the German frontier in February 1945, as in May 1940, one side completely outclassed the other. And the military results were inevitably just as conclusive...
...Germans, on the other hand, were weaker. They probably had less than 70 understrength divisions left in the west. At least twelve armored divisions had been whisked away. Some units of the Sixth Panzer Army, which had spearheaded the Ardennes drive, were already identified on the eastern front...
...spectacular start as War Minister. He announced his determination to abolish thousands of the 20,394 sub-organizations of the National Military Council. He laid plans to train 30 to 40 divisions in 1945, to equip each of them with U.S. artillery. Whereas each Chinese army now comprised three understrength divisions, Chen planned armies built of four full-strength, "square" divisions of four regiments each...
...army fell out along the road. We slept. Next day about noon we arrived at divisional headquarters, four miles behind the lines. We had been assigned to the famed 151st Division, whose chief of staff 25 years ago was Chiang Kaishek. The 151st, like all Chinese divisions, was understrength. The entire division had two pieces of artillery-two antique French 75's-several mortars, some machine guns and rifles. It also had guts. What it had to do was to move up the hills in the daylight, ignoring Jap artillery, and dig live Japs out of holes they...