SUPPLIES FOR D-DAY
Finest Armaments In Endless Flow
LONDON, May 5. When the day arrives for the starting ot the invasion every soldier may be assured that his weapons, ammunition, tanks and vehicles are superior or at least equal to the enemy’s, states the chief ordance officer of the United States forces, Brigadier-General Henry Snyler, in a report issued through the American forces newspaper “Stars and Stripes.” He adds that huge quantities of guns, -weapons and ammunition are stored in orduuce depots in Britain, and arrangements have already been completed whereby an endless stream of ordnance supplies will flow to the invasion forces. Some ordnance, will be in action for thh first time. „ , , . “We have no secret weapon, he said, “but we have the finest artillery and ammunition, with higher explosive charges, amj small arms with better performance than the enemy has yet used.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 188, 8 May 1944, Page 5
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144SUPPLIES FOR D-DAY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 188, 8 May 1944, Page 5
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