BRITISH MUNITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 19, 23 July 1945, Page 4

BRITISH MUNITIONS

U.S. FORCES "NEVER LET DOWN"

LONDON, July 21. A tribute to the manner in which Britain had never let down the American forces when essential supplies were needed under reverse lend-lease was paid by Major-General H. B. Sayler, chief United States ordnance officer in Europe, at a Press conference. "No red tape ever clogged the wheels, and deliveries were always prompt," he said. "The Americans got what they needed." The Americans at one time had 11 ammunition depots in England, dispersed over approximately 1000 square miles, with 400 miles of roads, he said; British supplies, including 150,000 tyres, had saved 327,000 ship tons between June, 1942, and D Day. Other supplies provided for the American.;, forces by Britain included 110,000.000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 2,500,000 mines, 2,000,000 grenades, 1,000,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, 40.000,000 ft of welding rod, and 31,500,0001b of steel, brass, and metals. .•-' '•'■ '-■." ■ ■~.■•..■■."■:/'.: :\.-'-:-V..v -..;.:■:: The American army of occupation would in future not be supported from the British Isles, said General Sayler. Already the Americans" had reduced 485,000 tons of ammunition stores in the United Kingdom to on>* 10,000 to 15.000 tons. t