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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 MGs and automatic rifles 539 566
Heavy MGs 90 90
60-mm. mortars 90
81-mm. mortars 54 48
120-mm. mortars 28
Bazookas 558* 108†
Flame throwers 20
U.S. .50-cal MGs; 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‡ 36
U.S. 155-mm. howitzers; German 150-mm. howitzers 12 18§

* Also had 2,131 rifle grenade launchers

† Either bazookas or antitank rifles.

‡ Eighteen were found in the cannon companies of the infantry regiments.

§ 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.