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Show FOR THE NAVY The appropriation for the Navy, for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, as reported to the House, carries $9,462,670,198. The Navy has grown from 907 vessels in 1941 to 2,183 this year about 5,100 ships. Personnel will total 2,500,000 enlisted men and and by July 1st, 1944, will have 225,000 officers, including WAVE officers, and 50,000 enlisted WAVES. Among the 27,642 naval planes to be purchased in 1944 will be included in-cluded 100 four-engined transports. trans-ports. Twenty of these will be along the lines of the giant 70-ton Martin-built Mars type of flying boat. |