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Show PLANE BUILDING PUTS ALLIES NEARER VICTORY General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Force, says that we recently manufactured in one hundred fifty days as many airplanes air-planes as we made in the whole thirty-six years before the war. Rear Admiral Howard L. Vick-ery, Vick-ery, Maritime Commission chairman, chair-man, reports the construction of 175 vessels in May with a deadweight dead-weight tonnage of 1,782,000. The 1,000th Liberty ship to be built since Pearl Harbor was delivered during May. In the production of ships, the Admiral reports that for the first five months, our yards turned out 711 combat ships with a deadweight dead-weight tonnage of 7,142,122, which compares with 8,489,732 dead-tons dead-tons for the entire year 1942. The almost miraculous construction con-struction of aircraft and merchant ships in the United States constitutes consti-tutes the main reason for the excellent ex-cellent prospects that the United Nations enjoy in the present war. In addition, news from the At- lantic tells of U-boats being sunn faster than they can be built in Germany and of a steady flow of new escort vessels to patrol the sealanes through which men and materiel must move to Europe. The Battle of the Atlantic can be understood by the statement that only five per cent, of Lend-Lease Lend-Lease equipment has been lost at sea. This is a rather remarkable figue in view of the depredations of the U-boats and the fact that our ships and men have been compelled com-pelled to give especial attention to transports ferrying men across the water. |