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Since Germany's peak year (1942), when she turned out 27,000 planes, 40% of her fighter production has been knocked out-APB calculated-and her total monthly aircraft output reduced to 1,800. Japan's estimated monthly rate: 1,000-1,400. Last month's production in the U.S.: 8,700 planes...
...Secretary Stimson announced that the Army has 3,657,000 overseas, of its total strength of 7,700,000. These men are on every continent and hundreds of islands from Iceland to Biak. (Peak A.E.F. strength in World War I was 2,057,675.) To nourish this great force supply lines stretch more than 56,000 miles, to every continent. Some 1,150,000 of the Army's troops outside the U.S. are in the Air Forces...
...peak of this victory, Alexander was told to give up his command to become General Eisenhower's deputy. He complied without a murmur, produced for his chief a battle plan that trapped 150,000 Germans in Tunisia. After the conquest of Sicily, in which he earned a large share of credit, he succeeded Eisenhower in Italy with the reputation in many quarters of being the ablest commander in Britain's service. Given a set of real chances, the officer long recognized as the most aggressive in the British Army had finally become a figure on the victory pages...
Secretary Forrestal, newly sworn in, pointed to the labor turnover in Navy Yards, now at a peak...
...drive his new 1902, curved-dash Oldsmobile. By the time he was eleven, Floyd was an agent (in Berthoud, Colo.) for Reo, Maxwell, Cadillac. In Floyd's motorcycling prime he broke a world's record for the 100-mile (71 min. 1916), a Pike's Peak record (26 min. 13 sec.; 1926), and his coccyx...