Eli5. Why do military groups (101st airborne for example) seem to be numbered in random order
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So the enemy don’t know how many military groups you have. If it’s the 101st the enemy thinks there must be at least 100 others.
Americans also do this with their streets to make it seem that they live on a longer and more important street they’ll say their house is number 1001.
By the way. The Germans numbered their tanks coming off the production line each one more than the other. You could only see this by close examination, but by the numbers found in the field it was possible for the Allies to estimate how many tanks the Germans had made. So since then the numbers are numbered in random order to prevent estimation of the total numbers.
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