WAR TRANSPORT
OF MEN AND MATERIALS. AMERICA’S BIG TASK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 28. The War Department disclosed that the Army transportation section moved 891,827 men overseas during the first year of the war and added that at present it was shipping an average of 82 lbs. of supplies and equipment daily for each man. The total shipment overseas amounts to 10,475,000 tons over shipping lanes averaging 14,000 miles in length. The War Department also released comparative figures for the same period in the first world war. These are:—366,003 men transported overseas, 431bs. of supplies and equipment for each man shipped daily. Shipments of 1,727,000 tons over shipping lanes averaging 6,500 miles. It was added that cargoes today sharply emphasise increased mechanisation. For example the quantity of petroleum and petroleum products shipped overseas during the first year of the present war exceeds by eighty times the amount shipped in the same period of the last war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 4
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162WAR TRANSPORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 4
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