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It is a straight listing of the culmlative numbers of vehicles in each Unit from the day it landed. Thus for The US by Aug 7th the total strength of all the Tanks and TD's landed came to 3763. It is a theoretical 'full strength' number from day 1. They never again (for the US at least)achieved 100% of the official numbers. Despite the much vaunted Sherman production numbers the US experienced a severe shortage of Shermans by late 1944. Britains numbers 'slipped' because they disbanded some Units to re-inforce others.
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