04-03-2008, 10:22 PM
The 79th Congressional Record speech of Hinshaw, dated May 1945, states: "Now there are 700,000 of these Army Engineers, a group larger than any other branch of the Army except the Infantry and Air Corps. Seven hundred thousand and there still are not enough. It is an engineers war."
In World War II the average "tooth-to-tail" ratio was 10 to 1; that is, for every combat soldier an average of ten men supported him logistically and administratively.---borrowed from Carlo D'Este, Fatal Decision.