NEW BATTLE POLICY
IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT OF CASUALTIES FIFTH ARMY SCHEME Recd. 7.55 p.m. Washington, May 26. Gains scored, by American units ol the sth Army in italy are attributable to a new policy of pouring continuous replacements into combat divisions, the Secretary of War, Mr. H. L. Stimson, disclosed at a Press conference. He said the sth Army’s 60-mile advance from the Gustav Line was due to the tireless energy of the American troops in the 2nd Corps, whose strength and freshness had been kept up by the new system of immediate' replacements. This system, which also had been applied to French units fighting with the sth Army, consists of sending replacements into battle as casualties occur, and while the actio?. continues. Thus, instead o' the previous practice of allowing a division to take its losses and then replace it with a new unit, it is maintained constantly at fighting strength. Mr. Stimson added tnat Lieut.-Gen-eral Jacob Devers, the senior American commander in the Mediterranean, had advised that gains were made possible because trci'ps were able to I push forward with continuous freshI ness and. vigour, which would not otherwise have been made.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 125, 27 May 1944, Page 5
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