#Toe armored infantry battalion 1944 manuals#

JamesL wrote:As a side note, in 1939 the US Army military attache in Berlin, Major Percy Black, somehow picked up copies of the German operations manuals for panzer divisions. The separate tank battalion remained at 5, but the light armored division increased to 24 and the 2nd and 3rd Armored Division to 37. The TE authorization for armored recovery vehicles was also modified. It appears that the TE authorization for dozer blades to equip tank dozers was approximately 6 per separate tank battalion, 18 per light armored division, and 12 in the 2nd and 3rd Armored Division.

The authorization of M-4 105mm tanks in the 2nd and 3rd Armored Division was confirmed as 27. At the same time the 2nd and 3rd Armored Division retained 15 M-8 HMC.Д¤. It was intended that they would replace the M-8 HMC in the armored infantry battalion assault gun platoon.ДЈ. The number of M-4 105mm tanks in the light armored division was increased from 18 to 27. Only the assault gun troop in the cavalry reconnaissance squadron retained theirs.Дў. The number of M-8 HMC in the light armored division was reduced from 17 to 8. However, replacement vehicles sufficient to enable this change to occur were not available until late January and early February 1945.ДЎ. On or about 28 November 1944 the authorized TE for armor units was changed. In summary what I have found over the years in the ETOUSA (SHAEF) AFV&W Section and the First Army (12th Army Group) Armored Section files is this: Besides that there were the standard change authorizations for bulldozer kits. Seriously, the only theater change authorized for the 2nd and 3rd AD was the addition of 105mm-armed M4 Assault Guns in the fall of 1944 (I can dig out dates if you want them) and substitution of the 57mm AT gun for the 37mm (although the 37mm were held onto for some time and were the basis for some oddly halftrack/gun lashups before they were essentially discarded). JamesL wrote:I gather an official TO&E was not issued for the US 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions.

Toe armored infantry battalion 1944