TO CARRY THE INVADERS
45,000 ADDITIONAL LANDING GRAFT NEEDED ALLIES NOW HAVE 40 MILLION TONS OF SHIPPING NEW YORK, Jan. 10. " Some 45,000 additional landing craft must be completed quickly by the United States to ensure success in the European invasion, the dates for which are already set," said the Under-Secretary for .the Navy, Mr J. V. Forrestal, speaking in Washington. '" One-fourth of the total navy expenditure, in 1944 will be devoted to landing craft." " The United Nations will have 40.000.000 tons of shipipng by April, which German military opinion considers is the most favourable month for the invasion of Europe," says Commander Erie Oesberg. the former head of the Swedish naval college, in an article in the- Stockholm paper ' Tidm'ngen." " Allowing five tons of shipping for every soldier carried, it will lie possible to throw a great force against the Continent. This shipping achievement is the greatest Allied strategic success of the war. Britain from the outbreak to the end of November, 194.'). built .'5.940.0(H) tons. America 18.000,000 tons. Camida 1.700.000 tons, and Australia 700.000 tons."
Commander Oesberg rejects as exaggerated the German claim to have sunk a total of 35.000,(100 tons.
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Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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193TO CARRY THE INVADERS Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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