Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1944 — Page 7

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U. 8. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the strategic outlook for the united nations is generally good. « In the West, more than 1,000,000 allied combat troops are pressing slowly into Germany ih one of the great offensives of all time, ' Red army ’ hordes are driving upon the reich from the East,

Back In Philippines In the Pacific, Gen. Douglas Mac-

Arthur is back in the Philippines, | The U., S. niivy has avenged Pearl | Harbor by crippling the Japanese | fleet. Tokyo is learning from B-29 {crews that war can be a flaming

hell, t . But there are dark spots in the | picture,

A host of. imponderables make {uncertain = the immediate future course of the war. They tloud the face of the peace to come, They include: ONE. A Japanese breakthrough |in Southeastern China which threat ens both Chungking, the capital, and Kunming, the U, 8S. 14th air force's great. base on the Chinese side of the Himalayan hump. TWO. Allied supply problems, especially in the vast Pacific. Man- | power shortages. and production |lags at home. Difficulties inherent in trying to prepare economically |for peace while still fighting the | war, THREE. Internal discord in China and the liberated countries of Europe, taking in many instances the {form of an ideological tug of war which conceivably could speed difficulties among the major allies. But these difficulties could not

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

United States Begins 4th Year of War Confident of Victory

‘words of President Roosevelt, “a

“lair might to protect novel and

OCT. 19—MacArthur returns to the Philippines.

NOV. 24—B-20's attack Tokyo for |1940's. have sunk some 2300: Japanese ships, | captured 780,000 G The fig-

the first time. This same year also saw the U, 8. capture of Peleliu, Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. The allies smashed 4000 miles closer to ‘Tokyo. The most of France was liberated. All of Greece and much of Yugoslavia was freed. Germany deserted their erstwhile satellites—Romania, Finland and Bulgaria. In all, this year, there were “27 different D-days—each one,” in the

triumphant success”’ Thus far, one of the greatest contributions of the United States to modern warfare has been ‘the perfection of amphibious offensive operations. The new year may well see the American amphibious technique, employing concentrated naval and

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It's 1944 food production 15 ex-|waves of 1,200,000 troops. In Western Europe alone, from pected to be 33 per cent above) The navy and army together D.day through Nov. 30, the allies

. Despite the loss of nearly 230| including nearly 400 warships. : : ships since the war's start, the navy| The army's growth Into ome of | indicated total German casualnow has 23 battleships, at least 17|history’s greatest fighting machines | 18 In that time and theater. of in the. Pacific. About 100 aircraft|was paced by expansion of its air | 1,250,000] ;

es carriers make 2000-plane assaultsiforces to an overseas strength of| According to OWI, U. 8, fighting tactically feasible. There are.thou-|1,000,000 men and 1000, squadrons. | men in the East have killed 277.000

sands of lesser craft. Since Pearl Harbor, A. A. F. Japanese at a cost of 21,000 AmerIn three years, the navy, by its|planes have made 1,500,251 combat ican dead. And 250,000 Japanese own accounting, has: flights, 1,127,723 of them against have been marooned in isolated “Cleared the Japs from a Pacific|/the Germans and 372,528 against|island pockets cut off by allied ofarea of 8,170,000 square miles;” the Japanese, | fensives. v Destroyed 10,000 enemy planes; They have shot down 27,000 en-| But the Japanese still have 4 Convoyed an aggergate of 61,000/emy aircraft, {000,000 men in the field, the OWI ships; ! Enemy-casuaities have been con- ‘said, They can comfortably equip Landed on enemy beaches assault'sistently higher than allied, and frain another 2,000,000.

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Plans for Peace

The year was the most violent and consuming of the war thus far.

and energy to plan, at international conferences, for the peace years ahead, And in the United States, the people took in stride their first wartime presidential election since 1864. The discussion of world peace was conducted against a background of vast changes in the world war since Pearl Harbor. Since that “Day of Infamy,” the United States has built its. army from 1,600,000 men to 8,000,000. Nearly 5,000,000 are overseas.

obscure the brilliant allied successes of the recent past. A handful of dates supply the main chap- | ter -headings for the story of 1944: | JUNE 6 — Allies smash Hitler's | Atlantic wall and invade France. JUNE 15 — B-29 Superfertresses | attack Japan for the first time. | troops invade Southern France. | AUG. 25—Paris liberated.

1st army invade Germany.

Its navy has grown in personnel | from 430,000 to 3,800,000 and. in | ships from 1076 of all kinds dis{placing 1,875,000 tons to 56,270 aggregating 10,486,184 tons. | The United States has built 240,000 planes, 70,000 tanks, 2,800,000

{big. and medium guns, 1,800,000 | AUG. 15—French and American trucks, 15,000,000 machine guns and

rifles, 43,000,000 rounds of ammuni-

[tion, 43,400,000 bombs, and 4308 | SEPT. 11—Soldiers of the U. 8. merchant ships totaling 44,082,000

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