The US Army in 1944-1945.
Military Organization > United States > U.S. Army Rifle Company (1944-45) Part of: Infantry Battalion, Infantry Regiment Type: Light Infantry Time Frame: Feb 1944-June 1945 Personnel: 6 Officers, 187 Other Ranks These were the U.S. Army's light infantry companies during the North West Europe...
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The U.S. Army Rifle Company (1944-45) with 6 Officers and 187 Other Ranks for a total of 193 armed only 23 men with the M1 carbine, 11 being officers or NCO, 12 being the buglar, the messengers and the amno bearers.
And one of the first thing, every officers and NCO learned in time of war is to carry the same gun, so a M1 rifle, that your soldiers to avoid being killed by a sniper because you have a handgun or a different gun than the others. I saw it wrote in many books about infantry combar or war memoirs.