European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 Sta planes i s 3 i and shells t i v cargo of ten vessels launched in record time lie along a Pacific coast at workers put finishing touches on a Cyclone wide world big Carload of heavy ammunition to meet urn army order has been shipped from this Pennsylvania workers Are checking 8inch worldwide War super fortresses bomb Jap in the earlier Days of the Aerial War against the japanese Home it was possible to keep track of the these How headlines like that appear pretty the statistical minded Wilk be interested in a recent general aah commander and chief of the 20th global air said that 41 such missions not counting harassing and reconnaissance flights had been flown since last june against Industrial targets of the nip ponese priority objectives Are aircraft Power plants and steel the 2lst bomber command revealed that the great Tokuki plane Plant at Nagoya is about 40 per cent out of commission because bombs from had found the general Arnold said that As to the curtain has yet to go up on the first he predicted a bitter struggle american ranging deep into Pacific and far Eastern bagged 24 More enemy the Navy recently an this included one destroyer and three escort with these the navys silent Serviceman its Overall total of enemy sinking to 103 combatant ships and 855 noncombatant t dotted states naval to hurl been increased to five times what it was in and the tonnage of combatant ships has been in this announcement of its punching the Navy explained that Radical changes in the armament of Modem fighting ships toy behind the uss for commissioned in packs a Wallop 92 per cent greater than the prep Earl Harbor the Iowa is armed with nine 16inch guns in 20 five Inch double purpose guns i twin Many smaller anti aircraft in a 15second firing under Normal the Iowa can hurl More than 15 tons of shells warehouses and docks classed As the largest in the army air corps Are being completed at by thousands of civilian for use in the stepped up War against on land that was mostly swamp before last two of six Large buildings Are already in use the others prob ably will be ready in two army requirements for Small arms ammunition in 1945 have been hiked to 000 and More workers Are needed in a War department spokesman the War manpower commission announced it would attempt to get the new workers mainly through employment of the 1945 War production needs also involve thousands of a Type of mentioned by the president in a message to in citing the needs for this new the president said that it has a gun More powerful than any yet mounted on a fast moving reihe european division of air transport command could Roll some towering Statis tics off its wingtips As it rounded out two years of operations the other in that aircraft under the control of Brig Earl division flew 30 million or the equivalent of about round trips around the in the division logged 5 million Miles without a fatal a few More figures that Tell the Story of acts two years in the Eto passengers 22 million pounds of cargo 20 million pounds of email 2 billion individual american Industry hit Peak in 1944 by Simon Bourgin tomorrow staff writer to Jar americas War Arsenal 1944 was a record More than air planes were delivered by the aviation this equals the number of planes built in the United states from when Orville Wright tested his flying until when Amer ican plane factories moved into High the air planes built in 1944 tended to be heavier and carried More hitting Power than planes built measured in Airframe production last year Over a billion two percent under americas air crippled so badly in the Pearl Harbor is close to its Peak and can be measured by the number of aircraft produced since the nation began dose to air planes have been built since 194l this year More than Are scheduled for while last years production figures looked there was less reason for optimism in the aircraft production record for the planes delivered that month were two percent under what the schedules called the delivery of altered to meet changed military was even further behind behind schedule were the Corsair Navy fighter and twin engine Navy patrol Only three quarters of the corsairs called for were because of parts shortages and Assembly lines of subcontracting of army air Force Only the c46 commando i a26 invader were much behind a c46 Plant j closed for inventory some of the Assembly lines of subcontractors also had to be reworked ships american shipyards in 1944 turned out close to totalling dead weight in 1940 All the 7nited states merchant Fleet to less than 1944ffp shipping the number of merchant Harbor now stands at Over of similar records have been set in the production Ioc and motor around pieces of 1 and have been built for Dougi Ibous since  into Over 35 billion rounds of been produced More than rifles and carbine Pattii the army has received close til 1 some motor carriers for self propelled t scout and armoured cars and personnel r As 1945 american workers Are getting set for Oberl production East meets West in Hoosier classroom Uke shy schoolboys slipping notes to tailed a group of chinese army offi cers at South Are learning How to keep pm rolling by passing notes to their american Twentyfive of them Are studying the making and care of vehicles the Studebaker truck All of them read and understand but they dont speak it so by passing notes to their instructors they Are learning How to Eli Minate bugs that redline Hal tracks and these handpicked members of a Mission taking advantage of lend lease learning Are graduates of technical colleges in they know what Field conditions can do to each one fought the japs under when they return they will teach their embattled country men How to keep vehicles ranging in age from 33 to All Are captains or their commanding major Chishan graduated from Massachusetts Institute of to Phr Lorr by Michael Seaman tomorrow staff writer amazed factory Only association with anything chinese was an occasional bowl of chop found them selves to be professors to the Brilliant the chinese rotate through the Plant so that practically every Mechanic has an Opportunity to be a South Bend opened its doors to the Visi a few live in the but the majority Are guests in private what Little Leisure they have is Well occupied in soda events or most of the tune they Are too Busy for the Fly Nee Busy passing notes to Rita Icin air Force fledgling air Hawks of the French air Force earning their wings at various air Fields in have a similar language Barrier to the is they want to speak English sex to hurry their training program they Are taught in american officers teaching them to or to Lav a stick of bombs across a get lessons across by writing it was no problem american officers who spoke Flora fair Home supplied some1 aviation the Young and Golden wings of1 air admitted the need to in their own language in a foreign off when they and an Apple to the room of an aviation they insist of War the French military we dents from youths who Fougy mans for four years As Fol flown As civilians before the dressed in smart Blue Ulfo identify the Core of the fore la rapidly learning How while doing ing to speak English and teachers and fellow student news chinese army nicknamed Mac and Eddy after Studebaker Plant examine motor French speaking army air Force office details Tern to French cadets Tearny combat flying at