Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-28 | Page 2 | AEF Expected to Total Five Million in 1944

A E F Expected to Total Five Million in 1944 1994 WASHINGTON Sept 28 UP Colonel Lee A A. Denson Jr Ir actIng acta act- act a r In Ing director of ot the army service I forces requirement division said Bald Tuesday that American fighting men will have been en sent overseas by December 1944 and that it ft will be up to American industry to keep them supplied with the tools of victory Addressing leaders leaden of ot industry labor Jabor and the press who press who Monday heard high command warnings that the enemy is stronger than ever ever ever-Denson Denson said battle batUe strategy and tactics must be tailored to the rate of home production The tailoring he said works this way aY The strategists strategist decide the number num r and type of or military units unit for tor the action they are planning The production men mm list Ui the amount of ot equipment available from industry for tor or these units unit Then they compromise they compromise the shift shUt battle plans to fit output an and production plans to make available avail all able the m most t needed items When the results result are totaled total up a master plan is made up o of everything the army needs It I Ia Is Isa Isa a range long-range program projected project two years in advance and recomputed recomputed put every ery six months Denson said the supply program for the army ground forces alone alon this year ear will amount to approximately approximately while white fo for tor next year it will win be plus any carryover from this years year's program Denson said that in Sicily American forces lost 13 per cen cent centor of or their mm howitzers 36 per percent percent percent cent of ot their motor carriages for 75 15 howitzers and 46 per cen cent of ot their 57 guns although Sicily was only a minor cam cam-