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Operational Performance of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division September to December 1944.

ADA284499

Publication Date	1994
Personal Author	Holt, J. P.
Page Count	182
Abstract	This study analyzes the operational performance of the 28th Infantry Division during a period of high intensity combat in the European Theater of Operations. The focus is on the difficulties the division experienced within its subordinate infantry units. Infantrymen, though comprising less than 40 percent of the division's total strength, absorbed almost 90 percent of all casualties. The high casualty rate within infantry units severely curtailed the operational performance of divisions in the U.S. Army force structure. This inadequacy forced divisions to remain in combat for excessive durations, greatly increasing battle and nonbattle casualties. The army's personnel system further contributed to the problems infantry divisions experienced within their infantry units. It failed to provide sufficient number of infantry replacements in a timely manner and there was widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of infantry replacements. This study shows that the U.S. Army failed to realize both the importance of infantry units to the war effort and the severity of combat on the modern battlefield. The result was an infantry force structure poorly designed to accomplish its wartime mission. Replacements, Personnel, Morale, Nonbattle casualties.
Keywords	Infantry Military history Army operations Division level organizations Battlefields Army personnel Battles Casualties Missions Morale Quality Replacement Warfare Wartime Theses Europe Military organizations Military force levels Rotation Performance(Human) World War 2 Nonbattle casualties Army force structure
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category	74G - Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics
Corporate Authors	Army Command and General Staff Coll., Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Document Type	Thesis
Title Note	Master's thesis.
NTIS Issue Number	199501

Operational Performance of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division September to December 1944.

Operational Performance of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division September to December 1944.
ADA284499

Publication Date	1994
Personal Author	Holt, J. P.
Page Count	182
Abstract	This study analyzes the operational performance of the 28th Infantry Division during a period of high intensity combat in the European Theater of Operations. The focus is on the difficulties the division experienced within its subordinate infantry units. Infantrymen, though comprising less than 40 percent of the division's total strength, absorbed almost 90 percent of all casualties. The high casualty rate within infantry units severely curtailed the operational performance of divisions in the U.S. Army force structure. This inadequacy forced divisions to remain in combat for excessive durations, greatly increasing battle and nonbattle casualties. The army's personnel system further contributed to the problems infantry divisions experienced within their infantry units. It failed to provide sufficient number of infantry replacements in a timely manner and there was widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of infantry replacements. This study shows that the U.S. Army failed to realize both the importance of infantry units to the war effort and the severity of combat on the modern battlefield. The result was an infantry force structure poorly designed to accomplish its wartime mission. Replacements, Personnel, Morale, Nonbattle casualties.
Keywords	Infantry Military history Army operations Division level organizations Battlefields Army personnel Battles Casualties Missions Morale Quality Replacement Warfare Wartime Theses Europe Military organizations Military force levels Rotation Performance(Human) World War 2 Nonbattle casualties Army force structure
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category	74G - Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics
Corporate Authors	Army Command and General Staff Coll., Fort Leavenworth, KS.
Document Type	Thesis
Title Note	Master's thesis.
NTIS Issue Number	199501