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A little over a year ago, the then leisure- ly American defence programme was given a tremendous spurt as a result of the Nazi drive through France. Since then a great deal has been accomplished, and apart from strictly national requirements the United States has been able to give increasing aid to Britain as well as to other countries in the démocratie front. The United Press survey here published answers a vital question- how far has the defence programme pro- gressed in the first 12 months?
War?
Omaha, is expected to go into pro- duction in the late fall. When in LUDE
operation, these plants are ex- pected to produce 3,600 heavy and medium bombers Д year. These plants. together with ndditfonal facilities to be built by ulreraft inanufacturers, will be genred to turn out 500 lieavy bombers a month by the fall of 1942. F
This is what existing plants are turning out:
Aircraft about 1,000 military planes in May; about 10 percent. trainers, Until recent months, the ratio was more trainers than combat Chips.
Tanks-ight (13 tons), about 158 A mouth. Medium (20 tons) only a few pilot models, but about 200 month expected beginning with Oc- tuber.
The United States Navy has now the world's most powerful and heavi
the fy armoured Acet, although second-ocean part of the "two-ocean" navy is still in the making.
is ready The United States
Army seasoned troops and strong fortifications in its great defensive outposts at Hawait and the Canal Zone, but even there. lacks ultra- inden anti-crafty and air
air force The basic land
Be ready for about a year. Many of its men still are green; its up-to-date artillery and tanks are Just beginning to come out of the factories; few of its fighter planes in service now equal Euopenn stand- ards. ards.
defence Here
the detalled picture to-day as shown in a United Wherever possible, Press survey. oficial data were obtained, in many
Virtually all of the present 1,500 trebled; 50 cases, exact figures now are impos- 8.400 aircraft, including trainers, A
year ago, the figure was 5,000. Ap- tanks are of the light, 13-tun type, quadrupled, Field and anti-aircraft sible to obtain.
proximately 8,000 are any craft, Only a few pilot" models of the 20- artillery production ap 40 per cent,
limited
now Ands itself tanks have come of
resources, The Navy had 3,470 aircraft on hand to medium
production lifts. Out of 4,500 quar-, pinched for needed aluminium and Cars antigonese for aircraft production. ter-ton "eep" reconnaissance The Navy, which would carry the May 1. brunt of the fighting it the Axis Only a small percentage are of the ordered, about 3.500 have been. de- There is not enough steel to go #round for both arms and civilian Hvered. challenged America's determination most modern combat types.
wants. Civilian use
electric "deliver the goods" to Belinin, Is Most of them lack armour protec- and Rufficient machine-guns agreed to be the world's mightiest. lon
Air troups, parachute troops, ski power may have to be curtailed. serial cannon. Production troops and balloon barrage troops That is true although it has fewer and
10
is
The Navy
Ordnance-powder output up 1.000 per cent, small-arms ammunition up 1,200 per cent. in less than a year. Output of 30 calibre machine-guns calibre machine-guns
combat ships in service to-day than of the latest models did not be, are being trained. There are four The Economic Situation
a year ago,
soon.
transfer of
Interceptors are con-
and the conversion of 45 to other uses, will be long-range bombers.
planes
there were 395. The net loss is not
Under Construction
army
is
sites
de-
There has been an increasing di-
gin until early this year, and the parachute troop battalions of about New ships that were ordered early bulk of those produced were shipped 500 men each. In the New Deal have been put into to Britain. New-type four-engined
The $047,000,000 programme for 21 version of production and materials servico The 35,000-ton battleships bombers and North Carolina and Washington are sidered the equal or superior of any new camps and cantonments and en- from civilian supply. Priorities have Jurgement of existing establishments been imposed on 24 categories of in commission and will join the feel abroad.
is virtually completed. Ilousing now materials. The public is beginning Breakdown by types was not
sufflelent
men.just beginning to feel it. I for... 1,800,000 The Navy's for flung patrol system available but it was estimated that Twenty-eight for additional becoming difficult, for example, to lighting fixtures or has for more than a year given it about 2,000 of the army craft are
are being selected get aluminium operating experience under the next trainers. Of the Navy's total. 2.542 training centres
if the Army is refrigerator ice trays, thing to war conditions. It reports were listed as service craft, includ- for use when and
enlarged to 2,800,000 men.
Industrial production, measured by good progress on a programme of ing trainers; 213 as obsolescent; 352
There are sufficient basic weapons the Federal Reserve Index, is run- modernised anti-aircraft protection elisolete; 32 experimental; 337 re-
-old rifles and machine-guns-for ning at the highest level ever. for its older ships: Detalls are secret, serve.
the held force.
still There are
The Labour Department reported Its personnel is 240,727 officers and
The Army Air Corps has placed serious shortages in important mo- April's non-agricultural employment. orders for
21,600 a year ago. men, against 140,003 a
approximately
offensive and deferice wen- at an all-time peak of 37,017,000, up Fighting ships in major categories planes, Congress has been asked for de number 334. A year ago, before an additional $2,790,000,000 for ap- poos: anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft 2,735,000 in a year. Latest unofficial weapons, heavy field artillery. The estimates of unemployment are ap- 13.000 morc GO destroyers to Britain proximately
proximately 7,000,000, of which
Army is several thousand very of the new 105 mm. howitzers.
Just beginning to get
A national income of more than The 00 mm. anti-aircraft gun has $80,000,000,000-second only to 1920 The Army has about 8,500 pilots not yet
off production lines, is forecast for this year, and some as great as it might seem. The des
not yet come that went to Britain or were against 3,322 a year ago; the Navy The 37 mm. anti-aircraft und anti- estimates are as high as $100,000,- converted were over-age ones. Com- 4,500 ngainst 2,000.
tank guns are now going into large- 000,000 for next year. missioned in the lost 12 months have The Army Air Corps is working scale manufacture. The Garand semi- Appropriations, contract authorl- been 24 new destroyers, eight sub- toward
a training goal of 30,000 automatle ride, of which more than sations and Federal loans for de- the
two 35,000-ton pilots a year. marines and
A year ago, the Army 175,000 have been produced, is be- fence and British aid since June 1940
out at a was training pilots at a rate fewer ing turned battleships.
rate of 1.200 total $37,071,000,000, by the OPM's
ing to compilation. Adding this the than 500 a month. The pace was daily. HORROR raids on virtually,
$3,710,000,000 in orders placed here stepped up until 1,000 prospects en-
by the British up to May 1, it
brings unprotected Chinese cities have
The two-occan fleet programme tered its schools in March. Despite
standards required, applicants This is what John D. Biggers, the current armament programme in
the US.
up to $41,500,000,000. A constituted a feature of Japan-called for a total of 692 fighting craft high
by 1917. The Navy hopes now to so far have outrun Army facilities. OPA1 Production Chief, says must be $9,452,000,000 Army appropriation ese air force activity for the complete it by 1945. It lists the entire With expansion of facilities now, the done by the end of 1941 as compared
and
$520,000,000 supplemental Navy bill are pending. They will past four years; the culminating programme-358 new combat ships Army is making a special drive to "building" because contracts interest men graduating from col-
Acroplanes, output doubled; tanks, put the over-all total over $6,000,- point was reached during the have been let. About 76
lege. actually the ways.
The others, in- Present Navy pliot output is 200 quadrupled; powder, trebled; small 000,000, week-end when Chungking was
Only $5,300,000,000 actually has cluding four
50,000-ton a month and fast approaching 500. arms ammunition, trebled; Garand projectle cruisers, The Navy
ritles,
doubled and machine-guns, In- been paid out by the treasury so far, believes that
afler six bombed with the utmost fero- battleships and
creased five-fold.
Defence contracts placed to date January its training programme will About ณ month ago, Biggers pre-
$20,000,000,000, leaving city on 14 occasions between are in preliminary stages.
Normally, it takes about
48 supply a pliet reserve ahead of the dicted that "the next 60 days" would Friday and Monday. Perhaps months to build a battleship, 38 for 15,000 planes it hopes to have by see the beginning of "real produc- many billions in orders still to bo
cruiser, 30 for a destroyer. Navy July 1, 1943.
tion." This was based on the know- pinced. the Japanese still
Is an OPM breakdown of yards are working three shifts and
At several coastal points, some ledge that hundreds of new and ex- tender-belief-that-a-nation can cutting those schedules by from two air corps, combat units are at war panded facilities were nearing corn- contracts placed up to May 17:
Plants, engines, eta, $291,000- months
strength-in-numbers-of-planes-and- to a year.
pletion.
000; naval ships and parts, $4,543,- Construction started be brought to its knees by
during Of the 15 battleships listed as "un- men.
the 000,000;
ordnance, $3,030,000,000; The Army Air Corps is spending year on 1,000 new plants or expan other equipment, $2,120,000,000; pay, brutal and indiscriminate air der contruction" now, keels hove
been laid for eight 35,000 and 45,- $81,321,000 for expansion of his fields alon projects at a total of $2,839,- subsistence and other services, $1,
Work on these is and schools and construction attacks, although it is hard to 000-tonners
of 503,000, Three-fourths of these are 112,000,000; strategic materials stock- from
two years to a few months dozens of new ones. Many have being financed by the Government pile, $328,000,000; construction (in- understand on what they base
alone. All
10 be
oned at this assumption in the light of scheduled
various
dates from 1942 to 1940. their own experience in China,
The fleet of auxiliaries-tankers, together with the lessons of supply ships, transports, repair ships. Spain and Britain,
the nurse
are on
15
are been completed:
The Army
with
how:
Production
Here
directly or
*There is
Olson as to the
dustrial facilities), $1,093,000,000;
need for further plant expansion; as posta, depots, housing $1,734,900,000, lo whether civillan industries, 55
The hean curtalled earfler or con Men Office of Civilian Defence, headed should have Other Defence Activities
Its total strength on May 29 was automobile factories, etc. is composed of 194 vessels, 1,345,800 omcers and men. against 122 a year ago. Also 104 are immediate goal is 1,418,000. A year for greater under construction and 25 under- ago, the Army's personnel totalled like OPM Chlef William S. Knudsen by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of going conversion.
Here is a breakdown of combat
Total
have
arms production. Men
only 230,772,
no doubt that America can New York was set up on May 20, Of the men, 260,000 ure National outproduce Germany in virtually and soon will begin mobilisation of Guardsmen and 507,000 selectees: It everything when it gears itself to a millions of volunteers into units for worthy of note that there are also teal war basis. But they frankly protection of the civil population in
not know 402,000 regulars now on three-year do
how long it would the event of war. One of the first enlistments.
inke. Some say the ammed services tasks will be the creation of a net
Bulit Duilding 17 15
is
12
37
54
16K
190
100
78
334 358
ters
tank
It has long been proved that the destruction of private pro- perty and the slaughter of ships bulit and building: civilians by aerial bombings Battleships ....
Aircraft Carriers effects little, if anything, in the Cruisers
The Army's ground forces con- have been too slow in making up work of 500,000 volunteers to serve prise divisions
27 infantry divisions, four ar- their minds about their specific re-as air raid, "spotters." way of lowering morale. Modern Destroyers
Submarines
moured
that awalt full quirements.
The National Defence Mediation warfare has demonstrated that
equipment, two and one-half cavalry Approximately $2,000,000,000 is Board, headell by Clarence A. Dyks- divisions and five general headquar- being spent for 336 government-tfa, settled 30 labour disputes in the civilian morale disintegratės
battalions. A year ago the owned plants for planes, engines, first two months of its life. A $300,000,000 programme is un- Regular Army had only six Infantry machine guns, ammunition powder, The sea-going only under the influence of
merchant tonnago der way for development and pro- divisions and a cavalry division. The TNT, chemicals and artillery. Only of the United States is smaller than military defeats and skilful tection of outlying bases. This in- National Guard then had 18 infantry a few have been placed in operation. it was a year ago despite a vastly
As cludes the Army's share in the and four caval Fifth Column operations.
four cavalry divisions.
Most noteworthy in production are expanded construction programme, of these bases. Howali is
Mechanisation and motorisation of the powder plants at Charlestown, This is caused largely by transfer of China has not suffered the
considered the world's most strongly the canny has been slow. Only one Ind., and Radford, Va., and the Chry- merchant bottomp to the Army and former for more than a year,
held naval base. Above-ground fuel and Japan has never succeeded depots, vulnerable to possibla aerial try division is fully motorised, sler Tank Arsenal at Detroit. Many Navy and to Britain. The U. 3. But long-developed plans for a others will be producing this sun- Merchant Marine had 1,103 sea-going vessels totaling 7,051,200 gross tons in manipulating the latter to attack, are being put underground powerful armoured-motorised force mec
Four government-owned member on April 1 as compared with 1,350 any appreciable extent, China's there and at other strategle points. are on the verge of reality. Chains of supplementary
bases
gross tong last Ten more GHQ tank battalions assembly plants are being built, ships of 7,803,518,
are 851 ahips under morale to-day is as high as ever.
on islands from will be formed. Four more armoured Sub-assemblies will be provided for year, There being developed
com- construction or contracted for us Terrorisation bent low the spirit Alaska to distant South Seas, Few, divisions of 11,000 men each will be these pinnis by automobile
panies. The first assembly plant, at compared with 152 a year ago. of the Chinese people in the under present plans, will be strongly organised:
Puerto early days of the conflict, but it fortified. In the Atlantie,
is being converted Into gre wields no power at the present, co least of all in Chungking, which, stronghold and heat base. The
Great sites acquired from
Newfoundland troin like London, has learnt how to Britalo, "take it."
South America, are being developed. most the vicious all forces and are in use as alr At the
Some are already garrisoned Japanese raids on Free China
pairoi stollons. Little actual fortl
Rico
base
are
to
ago. Its siriking. forces have been
two reorganised into
streamlined divisions of 14,000 men each. Old destroyera have been converted into fast transports for landing forces...
Air Strength
The Army, Navy and Marine
territory can only leave its.nication has been accomplished yet. citizens without homes and tem is nearly double that a year Its strength-51,203 omeers and porarily dislocato war indus iries; the last montioned factor could be serious if the major portion of the war industries were concentrated in the towns, which they are not. It is true that Chungking's normal life is seriously dislocated while the Corps combined have approximately ralds are in operation, but this dislocation is more inconvenient than vital, as the capital chiefly concen- trates on administration and is not a manufacturing centre. Elsewhere, Chinese powers of recuperation have been so long established, and labour so plentiful and willing, porary enforced pauses in war work these air attacks do the Japancso are speedily overtaken, rendering war cause no beneût, and serve nonilgible any lost time and labour. only to create a feeling of revulsion Apparently, however, the futility throughout the civilised world. They of terror raids on Chungking and may yet prove to be the death war- other Chinese cftles has not yet im rant of the Japanese nation-
pressed Itself on the minds of the Japanese air chiefs; or maybe it is because they have so many excess bombs to be used up: or do not want
get siale through
lack icir pilots to
that tem- of activity. Whatever the reason,"
One result of the invigorated American defence programme — Douglas army bomber, largest military plane in the world. After flights, the minchine was pronounced perfect by the US Army's
glant B-10 of trial pilot