RUSSIAN ARMY’S STRENGTH
“Far Larger Than ThatofU-S.” ESTIMATES MADE IN WASHINGTON (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) . WASHINGTON, March 17. A United States Army spokesman said to-day that the Soviet Army would continue to be “far larger” than that of the United States even if
Russia carried out her announced plan to discharge all but 1926-27 class soldiers.
The latest estimate available for the Soviet Army and security troops is 3.000,000 men, with 450,000 in the Air Force and 600,000 in the Navy. General Carl Spaatz, Chief of Staff of the United States Army Air Force, estimated Russian air power at 14,000 first-line combat aeroplanes—-about three times the size of the United (States’ first-line air fleet.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25447, 19 March 1948, Page 7
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