AMERICAN NAVAL PLAN
HUGE PERSONNEL INCREASE Rec. 1 p.m. WASHINGTON. Mar. 3. Testifying to the House of Representatives Committee on a supplemental appropriation of 4.000, 000.000 dollars, the Navy Secretary, Colonel Knox, disclosed an operating force plan for a navy big enousn to dominate all seas with a total personnel of 2.250,000 by July. In 1944 Colonel Knox estimated the navj would lose and must replace one man in ten killed ?r wounded. The chairman of the committee, Mr Sheppard. asked was not a 10 per cent naval casualty an overestimation. Colonel Knox reHieu: "We have just begun to fight.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 53, 4 March 1943, Page 5
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