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Huge Requirements Of United States Navy HIGH CAPACITY AMMUNITION Rec. 10. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. The speed of the Allied advance in both theatres of the world war has created new production problems for the Navy, said Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy, in a speech at a Navy War Loan exhibition. "Assault transports and supply vessels which traverse the Pacific carrying troops and equipment to beachheads," he added, "are not being produced rapidly enough to enable us to maintain momentum. Rockets are a major item of which we are short. They prove so effective that production has had to be expanded from 8.000,000 dollars worth, established in the first quarter of 1944, to 161,000.000 dollars in the third quarter of 1945. We are not getting enough high capacity ammunition for use against shore installations. The Navy Department has therefore stepped up production schedules to a 1945 peak, which exceeds the present rate by about 50 per cent."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 275, 20 November 1944, Page 5
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