BIG NAVY
UNITED STATES PLANS domination of all seas. ESTIMATE OF CASUALTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 3. Testifying to the House of Representatives’ Naval Committee on a supplemental appropriation of 4,000 million dollars, the Secretary for the Navy, Colonel Knox, disclosed an operating force plan for a navy big enough to dominate all the seas, with a total personnel of 2,250,000, by July, 1944. Colonel Knox estimated that the Navy would lose, and must replace, one man in ten killed or wounded. The chairman, Mr Sheppard, asked whether a ten per cent naval casualty rate was not an over-estimation. Colonel Knox replied: “We have only just begun to fight”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1943, Page 4
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