Show Big Shipping Problem Faces U. U S. S in Orient By HERMAN HERl B B. ALLEN Associated Press Writer A ship r making the Ute round trip from New York to the British isles to carry supplies for the European war required about 65 day days This included la layovers overs loading and unloading unloading unloading un un- un- un loading time But a ship requires 90 to days to make the round trip from the west coast to the Philippines from which It Is possible China or Japan may be invaded Including layovers loading and unloading it jt might make four trips or it might make only two full trips and part of a third in a year jear Thus to supply one shipload a month for the Pacific war from the west coast four to six she ships must bo be kept in constant opera opera- tion Only two ships were needed to supply a shipload a month to Europe Over all distances arc are almost r Measurement in tons First 30 Days' Days Landing Maintenance Weapons and ammunition Combat vehicles tanks etc General purpose vehicles chicles Signal apparatus 1000 Rations Petroleum products Other quartermaster supplies Transportation 1000 Engineering equipment Chemical warfare equipment 2000 Medical equipment and supplies Air corps equipment and supplies Totals These supplies include everything everything everything every every- thing from buttons t to locomotives To land men and all their gear would require separate separate separate sep sep- arate by all kinds of J landing craft To maintain the men for 30 i ida da days s 's would require the unloading of 30 to 35 Liberty ships and 15 tankers And remember that to continue landing materiel at that rate ate for succeeding 30 day 30 y periods would require four to six times I I that many ships in n constant opera opera- tion Remember too that any full scale invasion of Japan or China exactly twice as great in the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- supply stor story but that isn't the only complication In invading Europe Gen Eisenhower's Eisenhower's Eisen Elsen- howers hower's troops had only to cross the mile 20 English channel There is no such handy off jumping-off place close to Japan or the mainland of China Okinawa if that island should be turned into an invasion base is miles from the southern south south- ern tip Up of Japan Both Okinawa and the Philippines are on a line some mil miles from the China coast Formosa which might possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly be seized as a base is about half that far An office of war information report says that from five to 10 tons of cargo must be landed in inan inan inan an invasion for every soldier who hits the beach 0 O W V WI I furnishes this this- table of supplies needed for foran foran foran an invasion force of men in their first landin landing and then to maintain them for 30 da days s 's would involve lve many times I men |