Show GASOLINE FOR THE ARMED FORCES the armed forces of the united states use gasoline more extensively than any other fighting service in the world use of gasoline to power thousands of types of equipment from blood plasma refrigerators to giant bombers and 60 ton tanks has immensely simplified our supply problems gasoline needs in this year war are eighty rimes greater than in tji the e last war A mechanized iced division whose gasoline supply falls fails is js so much scrap iron on the move a motorized infantry division c consumes gallons per miles not only do tanks half trucks and mobile repair shops continually drink vast quantities of gasoline but additional thousands of barrels daily are arc burned by tank trucks which bring the fuel up to the fighting line As the battle extends gasoline must be made available at more and more points in as great quantities as possible to avoid the risk of defeat for lack of refueling when our troops landed in north africa some types of signal corps equipment went ashore with them most of the equipment derived its electrical power from dynamos operated by gasoline engines truck mounted radio senders and receivers took their long range and high voltage from gasoline generators mounted in trailers similar mobile generators furnished the power for field telephones and for antiaircraft anti aircraft devices vices the sound detectors which warn of the approach of enemy aircraft the candle power searchlights whose beams can spot raiders at heights up to yards and the automatically aimed guns that bring the enemy down the engineers with their bulldozers trucks rollers and other gasoline using equipment have repaired and built highways as well as airfields these complex and numerous field operations are based on the use of a single all purpose 80 octane gasoline designed to operate equally well in the heaviest equipment and the most delicate this gasoline cooks meals for the men in field hospitals and boils the water to sterilize the utensils it washes and sterilizes their clothing and provides them ath showers |