From D Day To Y E Day
(Rec. II a.m ) LONDON. June 13. From D Day to VE Day 2,483,000 American troops. 3,067,000 tons of supplies and 423.000 vehicles were shipped from British ports to the Continent, according to an announcement by the United States Army’s United Kingdom base headquarters. Southampton was the main port for sending out 1.800,000 soldiers, 240.000 vehicles, 2,750,000 tons of supplies. 47.000 tons of ammunition, 26.000 tons of packaged petrol. Thirty thousand tons of general cargo, was loaded in 183 coasters at various ports in the three weeks before D Day,
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Northern Advocate, 14 June 1945, Page 5
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