History of the Second World War by Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Author:Basil Henry Liddell Hart [Hart, Basil Henry Liddell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General, Other
ISBN: 9780306809125
Google: 1OfY8JFTYDkC
Amazon: 0330511718
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1999-04-15T23:00:00+00:00

* These figures, from the records, significantly show how fallacious it can be to compare Allied and Axis strength in terms of the number of ‘divisions’ engaged on either side — as the Allied commanders, and many of the official historians, have done in their accounts. At this period the tank establishment of an American armoured division (390 tanks) was more than twice as large as that of a normal German panzer division (180). But the actual ratio was usually greater, as the Germans had more difficulty in making up shortages. As can be seen, even the depleted 1st Armored Division had approximately three times as many tanks as the average of the panzer divisions opposed to it.

The establishment of a British armoured division had recently been reduced to approximately 270 tanks, exclusive of specialised ones, and American divisions, with certain exceptions, were reorganised on a similar scale later in the year. But in 1944 the British armoured divisions were raised to a scale of 310, by equipping their reconnaissance unit with tanks instead of armoured-cars — and the actual strength of the Allied armoured divisions, in number of tanks available for action, was usually two to three times as large as the German. To maintain a balance the Germans had to depend on a qualitative advantage.

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