"USMC organisation" Topic
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ciaphas | 06 Dec 2014 3:44 p.m. PST |
I am sure that I should be able to find this information online but I cant. So onto the question, I have been playing WW1 using the rapid fire style OOB and wanted to add in USMC. So ws looking for a place to start. Thanks jon |
Ed von HesseFedora | 06 Dec 2014 3:58 p.m. PST |
The Marines were a brigade in the 2nd Division: the 4th Marine Brigade 5th Marine Regiment 6th Marine Regiment 6th Machine Gun Battalion If you look up those units on Wikipedia, you will find some organizational info. |
ColCampbell | 06 Dec 2014 4:44 p.m. PST |
And although they started out wearing the Marine green uniform, they were quickly changed out to Army uniforms primarily to ease resupply problems but also to confuse the Germans so they wouldn't expect to up against the "Teufelhunde" ("Devil Dogs" to the Germans). And Marine Major General John Lejeune commanded the 2nd Infantry Division from July 1918 to August 1919. link Jim |
ciaphas | 06 Dec 2014 5:15 p.m. PST |
Hi, thanks for the above, maybe I should be a little clearer as to what I am looking for. for the most part it is basic How many men in a company, how many LMGs (either british or french) How many companies per battalion how many battalions per regiment how many men in an MMG company how many weapons how many guns in an artillery battery how many batteries per regiment cheers jon as i understand it they adopted a British and a French system depending on who trained them, if so would a British organisation fit? |
Tgunner | 07 Dec 2014 5:55 a.m. PST |
No. They were organized the same as the rest of the AEF. A platoon had 58 men organized into squads of 12 with the rest in the HQ squad. 4 platoons to a 250 man company, 4 rifle companies, a mg company, and a supply and Hq detachment made a battalion. Three battalions with supporting units made a regiment and a brigade had two regiments witha mg battalion. A division had two infantry brigades, two 75mm artillery regiments, and a 155mm regiment. Generally 4-6 MGS made a platoon with a squad manning a mg. Artillery usually had four guns to a battery and generally three batteries to a battalion and two battalions to a regiment. The 155mm regiment had three battalions… But be warned, no USMC artillery made it to the field. So the artillery that supported the Marine brigade was Army. Osprey publishing has a great book on the subject: Men-at-Arms 327: USMC IN WWI 1917-1918. If you want the really crunchy details then you need Osprey's Battle Orders 6, The American Expetitionary Forces. They were equipped by the French and Brits and that was only to a degree. Most US artillery were French made as were the automatic weapons. However the U.S. did use rebored British 18 pounders (to 75mm) and Enfield rifles (there weren't enough Springfields to go around), plus most units used the British "tin hats" ie Brodie helmets. |
Tgunner | 07 Dec 2014 8:47 a.m. PST |
Oh, one of the four squads was equipped with four Chauchats (15 men). The other three squads were a rifle squad (17), a rifle grenade squad (9), a hand grenade squad (12). The rifles and hand grenade squads maneuvered to assault while the automatic rifles and rifle grenades provided covering fire. I just found out that the Marines were indeed armed with Springfields. |
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