COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery
COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery
COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery
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OPERATION OF NOVEMBER 14, 1918<br />
THE CRISIS IN GERMAN EFFECTIVES<br />
The successive retreats, as has already been indicated, had shortened<br />
the front of the German armies from nine hundred kilometers on<br />
July 15 to seven hundred kilometers on November 11, but their losses<br />
had been so heavy that their total number of divisions had decreased<br />
during the same period from 207 to 184. The Germans had been compelled<br />
not only to break up these twenty-three divisions, but they had<br />
also made considerable reductions of effectives in the greater part of<br />
their regiments. l'Ievertheless, as it was necessary to leave in line a<br />
certain density of troops, the number of German divisions went on increasing,<br />
as follows:<br />
On September 24, the front was held by 129 divisions (15 of which<br />
extended from the Moselle to Switzerland).<br />
On October 14, the front was held by 164 divisions (16 of which<br />
extended from the Moselle to Switzerland).<br />
On October 28, the front was held by 165 divisions (17 of which<br />
extended from the Moselle to Switzerland).<br />
On November 10, the front was held by 167 divisions (16 of which<br />
extended from the Moselle to Switzerland).<br />
As a consequence, the number of divisions of the mass of maneuver<br />
diminished from day to day, and on November 11 the last German<br />
reserves comprised not more than 17 divisions, of which two only had<br />
more than one month of rest.<br />
Dates<br />
July 15<br />
September 26<br />
November II<br />
U:;>iITSOF THE GER:lfA:;>iAR:lIY AVAILABLE FOR SERYICE<br />
'Total No. 0/ No. Reserve<br />
I Divisions . Divisions '<br />
, I<br />
207<br />
197<br />
18.t<br />
81<br />
68<br />
17<br />
Valae 0/ Reserve Divisions<br />
Fresh :Reorganized I Tired<br />
On the contrary, the effectives of the Allies increased regularly,<br />
thanks to the arrival of American reinforcements, and on ~ovember 1<br />
the Allied armies had 1,485,000 infantry opposing 886,000 of the<br />
German Army.<br />
CO:lIPARISO:'i OF THE hFA:'iTRY FORCES FRO:lI JI.:LY I TO NOVE:lIBER I, 1918<br />
July I<br />
August I ••<br />
September I<br />
Octcber I •<br />
;'\O\-ember I<br />
43<br />
21 2<br />
26<br />
40 5<br />
Dates Allies<br />
1,556.000<br />
1.672.000<br />
1.682.0JO<br />
1.514.000<br />
l.435.0oo<br />
12 7<br />
10<br />
539<br />
Germans<br />
1.412.000<br />
1.3J5.00n<br />
1.339.000<br />
1.223,000<br />
885.000
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