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Show ARMY LOSES A TOTAL OF 92,000 VEHICLES The XJ. S. Army in the European campaign, lost 92,000 vehicles destroyed, de-stroyed, including 25,781 jeeps, 19-664 19-664 2'2 ton trucks, 4,462 M-4 medium med-ium tanks, 1,458 light tanks and 3,165 half-track cars. It is revealed that it was not necessary to use the entire vehicle reserve built up in Great Britain and on the continent. This means that the Army had an ample supply sup-ply of vehicles. In fact, it used only on-ly 350,000 of 550,000 general purpose pur-pose vehicles, 52,999 of 70,000 combat com-bat vehicles and 15,000 of 45,000 special purpose vehicles. - The reader should not get the idea that the vehicles not used were unnecessary or that the high command wasted money in constructing con-structing them. In all successful warfare, it is necessary to have ample reserves. No one knows how long a war will last, -or how a battle bat-tle will develop. Consequently, it is impossible to accurately estimate esti-mate the number of anything that is needed. |