Post Numéro: 32 de Benoit Rondeau 27 Oct 2011, 08:12
Bonjour, à propos du nombre de Flak de 2 cm par régiment, 20 c'est une coquille (pour 20 mm en fait)! Désolé.
cf :
GERMAN INFANTRY DIVISION CUT TO MEET MANPOWER SHORTAGE
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A large percentage of German infantry divisions have been reorganized within the past year with their strength reduced but with virtually the same, or even increased, firepower. Two new types of six-battalion divisions have been encountered. One of them has two three-battalion regiments, and the other, a more common type, has three two-battalion regiments. Significant differences of both new types from the normal infantry division of 1943 are summarized below:
1. Total personnel is reduced from about 17,200, normal 1943 strength, to a maximum of about 12,400.
2. Infantry reduced to six battalions—either two regiments of three battalions each, or, more commonly, three regiments of two battalions each.
3. Infantry platoons usually reduced from four to three squads.
4. Reduction in personnel of supply columns and medical units.
5. General economy in use of personnel throughout the division, either by elimination or by doubling-up of duties.
6. Reconnaissance battalion replaced by a divisional Füsilier battalion, with an organization identical with that of the usual infantry battalion, but with more mobility given by extensive use of bicycles. With the change from offensive to defensive warfare, and the shortage of manpower, this mobile reserve takes the place of the reconnaissance unit.
7. Bridge column in the engineer battalion withdrawn to GHQ.
8. Firepower maintained, and even increased in some components.
9. Increase in caliber, though decrease in total number, of mortars and antitank guns, some of the latter being self-propelled.
10. Increase in number of 20-mm dual-purpose guns provides strengthened organic antiaircraft defense.
Details of strength and weapons in the new-type division with three two-battalion regiments are shown in tables II and III.
In all types of German units, the trend has been to supplement German manpower to an increasing extent by the use of a substantial minority of foreign auxiliaries (Hilfswilligen). These are usually Italian or Soviet prisoners of war.
There will be considerable differences, of course, in the strength and equipment of the various divisions. These differences will increase with shortages of matériel and personnel and with the consequent need for improvisation.
source:
"German Infantry Division Cut to Meet Manpower Shortage" from Tactical and Technical Trends
A WWII U.S. intelligence report on the reorganization of the German infantry division in WWII, from Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 51, October 1944.
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cordialement,
B Rondeau
edit par jumbo : voir le lien donné par Benoit ci-dessous pour les différents tableaux