MAMMOTH ORDNANCE DEPOT
London, Mar. 6. The “Sunday Express” displays a reporter's description of a mammoth ordnance depot "somew'here in Britain” where bedding, cooking utensils, tools, and general service stores are piled row after row each 20 feet high filling one of Britain’s largest warehouses and overflowing into warehouses and buildings elsewhere. The senior ordnance officer asked where all this was going, replied: “That secret is known only to those at the Casablanca conference and a few' at the War Office. I don’t know myself. You are the first civilians to see this tangible evidence of the fighting to be done this year in a war theatre yet to be opened."—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 8 March 1943, Page 4
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