SHIPPING AND WAR
QUICK GROWTH OF TONNAGE Rec. 10 a.m. WASHINGTON, October 7. The United States will have 5,000,000 men serving overseas by the middle of 1944, states a Senate sub-committee report on shipping. This will be six months ahead of the War Department's schedule and will mean that fighting plans can be advanced and victory won more quickly with less loss of life.
The demands that more shipping should be allocated to the Pacific theatre of war are deprecated by the sub-committee. To divert ships now from the European zone would, it says, choke off the Allies' greatest offensive in midstream. The report states that the United States war shipping is 3,000,000 tons above expectations, but finds that space is not fully used. If every cubic foot of space were packed Allied shipping could deliver a decisive blow in Europe this year. Unified control of all military shipping would result in from 15 to 25 per cent, saving in space.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1943, Page 4
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161SHIPPING AND WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1943, Page 4
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