US Armored Division: Generic Table of Equipment and Organization Combat Units 1944-45
Armored (Tank) Battalion (Total 3 Battalions per Division)
Bttn HQ: 3x Tanks, 1x M3 H/T, 4x Jeeps, 2 rifle sqds
3 Armored Companies @ CHQ: 2x Tanks
3 platoons @ 5x Tanks
1 Armored Company: CHQ: 2x M5A1 Stuart or M24 Chaffee
3 platoons @ 5x M5A1 or M24
1 Recce Platoon: 3 sectionsQ 2x Jeep/.50"
1 Mortar battery: 3x M21, 1x M3 H/T
1 Maintenance platoon: 3x M32B1 ARV, 3x wreckers, 3 Jeeps
1 Gun platoon: 3x M4A3/105mm or M8 HMC Stuart, 2x M3 H/T
Armored Infantry Battalion (Total 3 Battalions per Division)
Bttn HQ: 2x M3 H/T, 2x Rifle sqds, 2 bazooka, 2x Jeeps
3 Companies@ CHQ: 2x M3 H/T, 2x rifle sqds, 2 bazooka
3 platoons@ 3x M3 H/T, 3 rifle sqds, 2 BAR, 3 bazooka 1x M3 H/T, 1x 60mm mortar, 3 crew 1x M3 H/T, 2 MMG, 1lx .50" HMG teams
1 platoon: 3x 57mm M1 A/T guns, 3x M3 H/T, 1x Jeep
1 Support Company: CHQ: 1x M3 H/T, 1 rifle sqd, 1x Jeep
1 battery: 3x M21, 1x M3 H/T
1 platoon: 3x M3 H/T, 3x .50" HMG, 6x MMG teams
1 platoon: 3x M7 Priest, 2x M3 H/T
1 platoon: 1x M3 H/T, 5x Jeep/.50"
Divisional Recce Squadron (Battalion)
SHQ (Bttn HQ): 3x M8 Greyhound, 3x M3 H/T, 3 rifle sqds, 2x Jeeps
3 Troops@ THQ (CHQ): 3x M8 Greyhound, 3x Jeep/.50"3 platoons@ 3x M8 Greyhound, 6x Jeep/.50", 1x Carbine sqd, 3x 60mm mortars
1 Troop: THQ: 2x M5A1 Stuart
3 platoons@ 5x M5A1 Stuart
1 Support Troop: THQ: 1x M3 H/T, 1x Jeep
4 platoons@ 2x M8 HMC Stuart, 1x M3 H/T
2. Brigade Support
Combat Command HQ: 3x M3 H/T, 1x lorry, 3 Carbine sqds, 3x Jeeps, 3x M5A1 Stuart, Air Liaison team
3. Divisional Support Up to:
3 Armored Engineer Companies@
CHQ: 2x M3 H/T, 2x rifle sqds, 2 bazooka
3 platoons @ 4x M3 H/T, 4x rifle/engineer sqds, 4 bazooka, 2 BAR, demo charges
3 Artillery Battalions @
BHQ: 2x M3 H/T, 2x Carbine sqds, 6 OP teams in Jeeps or M4A3 OP
3 batteries@ 6x M7 Priest, 1x M3 H/T
Non Organic Units attached. 1 AA Battalion and 1 Tank Destroyer Battalion
AA Battalion
Attached 48 vehicles
12 AA platoons@ 4x M16 or M15 or M19
Tank Destroyer Battalion
36 Tank destroyers
3 Tank Destroyer Companies @
CHQ; 2x M3 H/T, 2x Jeeps, 2(8 man) rifle sqds, 2 bazooka
3 platoons @ 4x M10 or M18 or M36, 2x M20, 1x Carbine sqd, 2 bazooka.
1 Tank Destroyer Recce Company: CHQ: 2x M3 H/T, 2x Jeeps
3 platoons@ 2x M8 Greyhounds, 5x Jeep/.50", 2(8 man), Carbine sqds, 2x 60mm mortars, 2 bazooka
4. Notes
a) Tanks are : June 1944: M4A3, 8% chance of being M4A3E2 Jumbo Sept 1944: 1
platoon in 3 OR 2 tanks per platoon can be M4A3(76mm), 08% chance of being
M4A3E2(76mm). Jan 1945: all can be M4A3E8, with 11% chance of being M26
Pershing.
b) The division has 3 armored battalions and 3 armored infantry battalions
shared between 3 Combat command HQs.
c) Note in service dates: M24 Chaffee (Oct '44); M4A3(76mm)(Sept'44); M4A3E2
Jumbo (Jun'44); M36 (Oct'44); M19(Jan'45);