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Divisional Strength, Major Belligerents



Divisional Strength, Major Belligerents
Pre-War
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
End
Australia
0
7
10
10
9
7
7
7
Bulgaria
12
14
14
16
23
29
29
20
Canada
0
1
3
5
8
6
6
6
China
approximately 300
Finland
14
17
19
20
20
20
-
-
France
86
105
0
0
5
7
14
14
Germany
78
189
235
261
327
347
319
375*
Hungary
6
7
10
16
19
22
33
30
India
3
5
10
14
16
16
18
18
Italy
66
73
64
89
86
2
9
10
Japan
36
36
39
73
84
100
145
197*
New Zealand
0
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
Poland
43
2
2
2
2
5
5
5
Romania
11
28
33
31
33
32
24
24
Soviet Union
194
200
220
250
350
400
488
491
UK
9
34
35
38
39
37
31
31
United States
(Marines)
8
0
24
0
37
2
73
3
90
5
89
6
89
6
89
6
Shows number of divisions at beginning of year. END shows number of divisions at the end of the war, May 1945 in Europe, August 1945 in the Pacific.
*The increase in divisions during 1945 for both Germany and Japan reflect, in part, the hasty creation of units consisting of the too young, the too old, and others previously considered unfit for duty, and assigned to the defense of the homeland.
SOURCE: Dirty Little Secrets of World War II, Dunnigan & Nofi