INVASION CRAFT
THOUSANDS STILL NEEDED
LONDON, January 9. Some 45,000 additional landing craft must be completed quickly in the United States to ensure success for the European invasipn, the dates for which have already been set, said the Undersecretary of the United States navy, Mr. Forrestal, speaking in Washington. One-fourth of the total navy expenditure for this year will be devoted to landing craft, he said. 4 n^nnn United Nations will have 40 000,000 tons of shipping by April, ™% lch X 9 erman military opinion considers the most favourable month for the invasion of Europe, says Commander. Eric Oesberg, former head of the Swedish Naval College, in an article in the Stockholm "Tidningen." Allowing five tons of shipping for every soldier carried, it will be possible to throw a great force against the Continent.
_ He says that the building of shipping is the greatest Allied strategic success of the war. Britain, from the outbreak to the end of November, 1943, built 3,940 000 tons, America 18,000,000 Canada 1,700,000, and Australia 700 000 1311^ Oesbe fg rejects as exaggerated a German claim to have sunk a total of 35,000,000 tons
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1944, Page 5
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189INVASION CRAFT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1944, Page 5
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