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Show PRODUCTION Major-General Lucius D. Clay, in charge of production for the Army Service Forces, says that despite production records, it will be weU into 1944 before supplies can be spared from combat needs to fully equip our soldiers in training. train-ing. He gives these comparisons with productions in 1918: Machine guns, treble the peak; small arms ammunition, eight times higher; 77-mm. guns, twelve-fold greater; great-er; artillery ammunition, seven times above the peak. General Clay says that our troops are equipped with superior or equal weapons to those possessed pos-sessed by the enemy. |