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In the US Army in WW2, the typical Infantry Division contained 3 Regiments. There were no Brigades. Each Regiment consisted of 12 infantry companies that were formed into 3 Battalions.
During WW1, the US Infantry Division had 4 Regiments divided into 2 Brigades.
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∙ 14y agoThere is no set number. It varies from country to country, and it changes over time to meet tactical requirements, but I think that a division should have at least two brigades in order to qualify as a division. Otherwise it is simply a beefed up brigade with divisional support, and one brigade can only be in one place at one time.
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∙ 10y agoDuring WWII there were three regiments to a US Infantry Division. During WWI there were four, in two brigades. A WWI division was almost twice as large as a WWII division. The Army "triangularized" just before WWII, going from four regiments to three in a division. In the Civil War divisions had two or more brigades, and brigades had two or more regiments, but most brigades had four or five regiments, and most divisions had three or four brigades, so, obviously inthat was there was no fixed number.
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