CRUSHING BLOW
ALLIED STRATEGY 7,000,000 AMERICANS REDEPLOYMENT PLAN (9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 27. “Our plan is to mass a great force for a single crushing blow against Japan. There is no use doing it piecemeal,” said General Jacob Devers, the new chief of the army ground forces, addressing a press conference. Genera! Devers added that he hoped to get 7,000.000 men re-deployed
against tile Japanese in a single blow. That did not mean that all would be in the firing line on one small island. Millions would be used for supply and other services in the United States and elsewhere, but all would be part oi a single team with a single objective.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21777, 28 July 1945, Page 6
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