1 May 1944 Part 2

1 May 1944 Part 2 Channel Islands provision stocks reported at target

Date note: Stock position 1 May 1944; annex dated 4 May.

Annex II to Army Intendant 7 St 2 No 148/44 Secret Command Matter dated 4 May 1944

Overview of the state of provisioning

Position on 1 May 1944

The table gives prescribed daily allowances in the order food, oats, hay and straw; the strength covered in men and horses; and the current percentage of the prescribed reserve.

1. Emergency food and fodder rations: allowances 1, 1, dash, dash; 205,000 men and 42,000 horses; 100%.

2. Initial troop allocation: allowances 4, 3, 2, dash; 205,000 men and 42,000 horses; 100%.

3. Required divisional supply-office stocks: allowances 10, 20, 20, 20; 171,000 men and 34,000 horses; 90%.

4. Required Army supply-depot stocks: allowances 30, 30, 30, 30; 210,000 men and 13,000 horses; 50%.

5. Resistance-nest stocks: allowances 7, dash, dash, dash; 40,000 men; 90%.

6. Strongpoint stocks: allowances 14, dash, dash, dash; 6,000 men.

7. Strongpoint-group stocks: allowances 14, dash, dash, dash; 2,000 men.

[The 90% entry appears beside a brace grouping rows 5–7; no separate percentages are printed for rows 6 and 7.]

8. Fortress stocks: allowances 56, 56, 56, 56; 70%.

9. Channel Islands stocks: allowances 90, 90, 90, 90; 100%.

[No separate strength figures are entered in the fortress and Channel Islands rows.]

Special circumstances and shortages

The divisions employed in coastal defence can be provisioned for a total of 56 days if the stocks of VASt., AVL and HVSt. are used, insofar as the latter hold reserves for the Army [German supply-service abbreviations retained].

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