Schematic plan · World War II (European Theater)

Battle of Sarre-Singling

6 December 1944
France
Victory for USA

A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

USA (US 12th Corps, 89,977 men under Mg Eddy) attacked Germany (Ger 13th SS Pz Corps(-)(+), 31,501 men under Lg Simon) in France. The CAA Database of Battles records 24 hours of fighting on a front of 32 km, a frontal attack against delaying action, and that USA won. Losses: USA 835 (1%), Germany 1,774 (6%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

USA

Mg Eddy

Unit	Arm	Men
USA left wing	Infantry	18,812
USA centre	Infantry	25,082
USA right wing	Infantry	18,812
USA reserve	Infantry	15,676
USA artillery (565 guns)	Artillery	8,475
USA armour (624 tanks)	Armour	3,120
Mg Eddy	Commander	—
In this plan		89,977

Germany

Lg Simon

Unit	Arm	Men
Germany left wing	Infantry	6,815
Germany centre	Infantry	9,087
Germany right wing	Infantry	6,815
Germany reserve	Infantry	5,679
Germany artillery (193 guns)	Artillery	2,895
Germany armour (42 tanks)	Armour	210
Lg Simon	Commander	—
In this plan		31,501

What the sources report

	USA	Germany
Strength, this plan	89,977	31,501
Losses, this plan	835	1,774

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 481, “Sarre-Singling”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 24 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rolling, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Temperate, Autumn, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Delaying action
Front width: 32 km (attacker), 32 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
USAattacker	89,977	835	0	565	Frontal attack; Penetration
Germanydefender	31,501	1,774	0	193	Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages momentum +1 · initiative +1 · air superiority +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 481 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.