Appendix F:
Comparative Fire Power of the U.S. and German 1944-Type Infantry Divisions

  U.S. German 1944
Strength (officers and enlisted men) 14,037 12,769
Rifles--carbines 11,507 9,069
Pistols 1,228 1,981
Submachine guns 295 1,503
Light MG's and automatic rifles 539 566
Heavy MG's 90 90
60-mm. mortars 90 --
81-mm. mortars 54 48
120-mm. mortars -- 28
Bazookas 558
[1]		 108
[2]
Flame throwers -- 20
U.S. .50-cal MG's; German 20-mm. AA guns 237 12
37-mm. AT guns 13 --
57-mm. AT guns 57 --
75-mm. AT guns -- 35
75-mm. infantry howitzers -- 18
105-mm. howitzers 54
[3]		 36
U.S. 155-mm. howitzers; German 150-mm. howitzers 12 18
[4]

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Footnotes

[1] Also had 2,131 rifle grenade launchers

[2] Either bazookas or antitank rifles.

[3] Eighteen were found in the cannon companies of the infantry regiments.

[4] Six were infantry howitzers, two in an infantry howitzer company assigned to each infantry regiment. Each howitzer company had, in addition, six 75-mm. howitzers.

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