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Explained Churchill: "The Soviet forces . . . outnumber the forces of the Western Union by at least six or seven to one . . . Apart from the establishment of the American bomber base in England, nothing has been done to give any effective protection to our peoples from being subjugated or destroyed by the Russian Communist armies . . . The question which challenges us is: Shall we have the time [to prepare our defenses]? No one can answer that question for certain. To assume that we were too late would be the very madness of despair ... In my judgment we have a breathing space...
Small Bite. General Motors' Cadillac Division took possession of Cleveland's Fisher bomber plant this week, began to plan production lines for tanks. But total defense orders in the whole Detroit area are expected to reach only $400 million by year's end-or about 5% of General Motors' annual rate of sales...
...Germany is now probably not more than two divisions. The U.S. has one understrength division and four or five housekeeping and constabulary regiments scattered from one end of its zone to the other. U.S. air strength is shockingly inadequate, consists of little more than two fighter groups and one bomber group. U.S. observers say that the ratio of Soviet to U.S. air strength is about...
...auto industry, this did not mean conversion. Cadillac would not use any of its present facilities to make the tanks, but would use the Fisher bomber plant in Cleveland, which has not been in production since World War II. Moreover, it would take Cadillac nine months, the Army warned, to make its first tank. For the time being, the Army would have to rely on its own $70 million Detroit tank arsenal. The only plant currently producing tanks, it is turning out only a meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton...
...over Korea was building up. U.S. and Australian Air Force fighters and bombers hit hard and often at Communist troop concentrations and supply lines. Last week Major General Emmett ("Rosy") O'Donnell's new Far East Bomber Command sent World War II Superfortresses (now classified as "medium bombers") to drop almost 1,000 tons of bombs on Red rail centers and supply bases north of the 38th parallel...