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The faster the armies moved, the less ammunition they needed

Once the Rhine was behind them, American units stopped burning through shells and tanks and started running out of fuel and spare parts instead anture rather than a slugging match. The campaign's real protagonists are twenty-six engineer regiments rebuilding German railways fast enough to keep pace with the front, so that by late April trains, not trucks, carried most of the supplies. It is a good corrective to the idea that the last months of the war in Europe were decided by combat alone loods, thaws and a river crossing were the harder problems. The system was stretched, but the account is clear that it never came close to failing.

To replace infantry losses after the Ardennes, roughly 49,000 men were pulled out of service units and reassigned to the infantry sixty-eight shiploads of replacement ordnance were easier to find than soldiers.

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