COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery

550 THE COAST ARTILLERY JOL"RNAL
The Group of Armies of the East had in reserve the 53d and 87th
Infantry divisions, which were to land in their zones from the twelfth
to the fourteenth of November, and the 1st Cavalry Corps composed
of the 1st, 3d, and 5th Cavalry divisions.
The American Army had the following six divisions available between
the Moselle and Pont-sur-SeiIIe: the 3d, 29th, 36th, 4th, and
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35th, and the 28th Division which the American command had withdrawn
from the Thiaucourt front to effect the cover in front of Metz.
The Group of Armies of the East had available, therefore, between
Pont-sur-SeilIe and Sanon, twenty-two divisions and a cavalry corps.
The Group of Armies of Wiirtemberg, with the exception of the
right of Yon Bothmer's Army (XIX) which had sustained on September
12 the American attack in front of Metz, had not yet felt the force
of our offensive. It was only composed, however, of exhausted divisions
that had been withdrawn after a short time of fighting and were
not, therefore, capable of facing an important attack.