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Outstanding needs include: anti-tank guns (none on hand; 228 on order); antiaircraft guns (a piddling 24 in service east of the Rocky Mountains; 338 ordered); semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute rifles (8,000 in service; Army arsenals can produce 5,000 a year); gas masks (100,000 in service, 300,000 needed for the first-line fighters); heavy artillery (only four of the Army's new 155-millimeter field guns are in service); aircraft bombs (the War Department won't release the figures for fear of encouraging potential enemies...
...expected and accelerated by the recent war scare, the War Secretary announced that the Terriers from now on will be patterned after the Regular Army. They will retain their antiaircraft and other duties, but four divisions will be mechanized, equipped with more warlike teeth: light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns and tanks...
Main drawback to Hore-Belisha's scheme to mechanize and equip this reorganized army is lack of weapons. Because of Britain's still-lagging rearmament program, even the Regular Army is not adequately supplied with heavy machine guns, anti-tank and antiaircraft devices, and observers are of the opinion that it will be many months before sufficient arms can be spared for the Terriers...
Rightist Spain last week staged an exhibit of captured, foreign-manufactured guns, tanks and airplanes in the sumptuous Grand Kursaal Theatre of San Sebastian, Spain's beautiful Bay of Biscay summer resort. The exhibit showed brand-new, up-to-date arms, including a 1938 Russian anti-aircraft piece, Swedish anti-tank guns, warplanes of Russian and Czechoslovak manufacture...
...preparatory footing. Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting $23,000,000 for 230 modern, mobile anti-aircraft guns, with supplementary searchlights, target detectors, etc. etc. Another $30,000,000, he says, will give the U. S. enough anti-aircraft equipment for immediate requirements. Likewise, deficiencies in tanks, anti-tank guns, modern artillery, bombs and other ordnance were partly filled by the last Congress and should be pretty well remedied within...