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...prewar favorites have gone down the drain: the 37-mm. anti-aircraft gun (replaced for medium altitude firing by the Bofors 40-mm.) and the famed 75-mm. field artillery piece (which gives way to the higher-velocity 3-in. gun that can stop any tank seen thus far). Infantry divisions still get some 37-mm. guns for anti-tank defense but will eventually replace them with six-wheeled...
Says Bob Patterson: "The idea that the cutback in production is the result of an abundance of certain weapons is wholly false. We probably never will have an abundance because of the heavy drain of battle attrition...
...immediate cause of the outbreaks was Germany's attempt to drain France of all available manpower. The Germans, taking over from Pierre Laval the job of recruiting an additional 40,000 French workmen, launched one of the biggest manhunts in history. They sought workmen to build up the fortifications of Hitler's "festung Europa," for work in German factories, for services of supply behind German lines in Russia...
Most Frenchmen were still imprisoned and frustrated within la patrie, but they were united in hatred of the Hun and of collaboration. London reports claimed that 80% of the French people now recognized General Charles de Gaulle as their symbol of resistance. They also recognized that the German drain on their working (and fighting) manpower can be slowed only by French resistance, halted only by a second front. Pending the day of invasion, Frenchmen remembered...
...second installment of Air Corps reservists not yet called are expected to receive their orders by March 30, according to a statement issued yesterday by Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau. A third and final call is expected to drain the College of all its Air Corps men by April...