War Gobbles Up Material
Eeceived Sunday, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK, March 18. Colonel Warren Clear, of the War Department general staff, for the first time, disclosed that the material losses in 39 days of the comparatively light Sicilian campaign, ranged as high as 13 to 54 per cent. For example, 45 per cent, of all 75-millimetre guns landed were lost. Colonel Clear added that the material attrition of the Italian campaign had not yet been disclosed but was much heavier. Sixty-eight Liberty ships were needed every month to supply half a million American fighters overseas.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 65, 20 March 1944, Page 5
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95War Gobbles Up Material Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 65, 20 March 1944, Page 5
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