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Here's the actual quote: "Despite the tremendous victories of the Russians, and despite control of the sea and air by the western Allies, all American ground forces were committed when Germany surrendered in May 1945. At that time over 96 percent of tactical troops of the Army Ground Forces were overseas, and the last divisions had been dispatched three months before. No more combat units were forming at home. No reserve, other than replacements, remained in the United States. Nor was there any significant strategic reserve of uncommitted forces in the theaters. This may be interpreted either as remarkably accurate planning of the minimum forces required or as a fairly narrow escape from disagreeable eventualities -- winning by the skin of the teeth." So, regardless of the organizational details, the AGF - the fighting troops - thought it was a very near thing.
If you look in detail you can see this was not just an issue of insufficient units but a lack of individual replacements too. Throughout the war there were frequent reorganizations and dragooning to reduce support troops and make more combat troops. Some examples: In 1944 anti-aircraft, tank destroyer, and coast artillery units were practically denuded to get more infantry, armor, and field artillery. Limits were placed on enlistment to AAF and ASF in favor of AGF. The ASTP (sort of an enlisted ROTC for ASF ) was practically dissolved freeing 73,000 for assignment to combat units. Some 24,000 aviation cadets found themselves suddenly ground-pounders. At the end of 1944 the War Department transferred 25,000 from ASF and 75,000 from AAF into AGF. All authorized overstrengths were eliminated to free up more men. All T/OEs except infantry rifle companies and cavalry rifle troops lost 50% of their basic privates to make more riflemen. In 1944 the Zone of the Interior was dredged for enlisted men acceptable for overseas service, freeing up 325,000 In late 1944 ETO losses were running at 90,000 per month with only 53,000 replacements per month available, and these included those unfit for combat units. On 7 December 1944 it was thought that the limit had been reached and unit inactivations would be required. The Battle of the Bulge "produced a downright emergency" with regard to replacements. The last nine divisions in the ZI were immediately sent overseas. From then on the War Department ignored theater requests for replacements and would only supply what was available leaving the remainder to be found within the deployed units. Men below physical standards and men with only 15 weeks total training (only six of which were infantry training) were sent into combat. (Nine months of training was considered to be the minimum acceptable.) The Pacific theater allocations were cut in favor of the ETO.
Besides, the prewar strength numbers were very large: 334 divisions required for offensive action pre-Pearl Harbor. The number had to keep going down throughout the war because neither men nor materiel could be found. (Only 89 were created in the end.) It doesn't appear that it was stopped artificially but continuously adjusted downward based on practical realities. I do know that tank production was curtailed at the end of 1943 because the strength requirements were met. Reading the histories though it's hard to tell if the requirements really were met or whether it was decided to consider supplies as adequate so that production could be reduced. In either case this capacity was re-directed, not idled. I'm sure the same thing was happening in other sectors.
FWIW This pretty well agrees with stories told by a couple of family members about their experiences during the last couple of months in Europe. One was more than due for return home but instead found himself "freezing his ass off" with an infantry unit on the way into Germany in February of 45'. The other, a mechanic, was pulled out of an air force depot in England and ended up driving a tank somewhere in Germany also.
However the variant was to be a nightfighter, with Schraege Musik cannon behind the cockpit, and the small disk was completely blocked by the fuselage for downward viewing. I think the disk radar was supposed to help the pilot get into position under the target for a Schraege Musik attack.
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