Nova Scotia peninsula, New Glasgow.
This place had now become the German military's North American Theater Headquarters. Field Marshal Manstein, the Minister of War and Chief of Staff who also served as Theater Commander, had arrived there from Germany and formally assumed command over the entire theater.
Meanwhile, Army Group B and Army Group C of the German Army had also arrived at the Nova Scotia peninsula and New Brunswick province, ready for battle. Germany's many puppet states had likewise dispatched large numbers of troops to assist. The Kingdom of England and Wales in particular had sent a full ten armies—two million men.
On April 9, Field Marshal Manstein convened an operational conference at headquarters. The Army Group Commanders of the Imperial Army, the Army Group Commanders of each army, and the Army Group Commanders of the Puppet Troops all attended the meeting. The German military and Puppet Troops together numbered a full eight million men. At two hundred thousand men per army, that made forty armies in all. Such an enormous force was no smaller than the US Army. In addition to the army generals, German Navy admirals and officers, as well as air force admirals and officers, also attended the meeting. In this massive decisive battle against the United States, the navy and air force would also take part and fully unleash their strength.
Naturally, supplying such a colossal army fighting in North America placed tremendous pressure on logistics. Fortunately, Germany's maritime transport capacity had advanced by leaps and bounds over the past few years. After replacing the British Empire as master of the seas, Germany's shipping capacity had continued to rise. After requisitioning a large number of merchant vessels, it was now sufficient to ensure the consumption of the troops on the North American continent.
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