PREPARING TO INVADE?
HUGE BRITISH ORDNANCE DEPOT LONDON, March 0. The ' Sunday Express ' publishes a reporter's description of a mammoth ordnance depot "somewhere in Britain," where'bedding, cookftig utensils, tools, and general service stores are piled in row after row each 20ft high, filling one of Britain's largest warehouses and overflowing into warehouses and buildings elsewhere. A senior ordnance officer who was asked where all this was going replied: " That is a secret known only to those at the Casablanca conference and a few afc the War Office. I'do not know myself. ' You are the first civilian to see this tangible evidence of the fighting that is to be done this year in a war theatre yet to be opened."
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Evening Star, Issue 24447, 8 March 1943, Page 3
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119PREPARING TO INVADE? Evening Star, Issue 24447, 8 March 1943, Page 3
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