Correction Re: Colmar Pocket

In my previous post regarding the “Colmar Pocket,” I discovered I had made some mistakes.  Not understanding military hierarchy I claimed that Uncle Billy and Audie Murphy were in the same infantry unit but that was in error; they were in the same 3^rd Division.  I also thought a Division was a subset of a Regiment but the opposite is true, a Regiment is a subset of a Division.  So, Uncle Billy was in the 30^th Regiment of the 3^rd Division, on loan to the French 1^st Army and Audie was in the 15^th Regiment of the 3^rd Division.

This new information also changes the locations depicted on the map included in the previous posting and it turns out that Audie Murphy is where I thought Uncle Billy was and Uncle Billy is 10 miles to the south.  Here is an updated map:

The Battlefield at Colmar

 For anybody who is interested, this is how military hierarchy is organized:

Army                80,000 to 200,000 men            two or more Corps

Corps               20,000 to 45,000 men              two or more Divisions

Division            10,000 to 15,000 men              two to four Regiments

Regiment          3,000 to 5,000 men                  two or more Battalions

Battalion           300 to 1300 men                      two to six Companies

Company         80 to 225 men                          two to eight Platoons

Platoon             26 to 55 men                            two or more Squads

Squad              8 to 13 men