Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary military strategy of the U.S. in World War II is to produce enough arms eventually to equip something like 7,500,000 American soldiers, 5,700,000 British, the almost innumerable Russians, 80,000 Dutch and uncountable Chinese...
Such work includes, for example, the raising of a fund of a million dollars to furnish athletic equipment for gymnasiums in draft camps. According to Sullivan, it seems that Congress had appropriated the money for the gyms but failed to equip them...
...equipment flowing into the area has enabled the British to equip at least three divisions previously lying idle in Palestine and Egypt. These, added to the forces in the Western Desert and Syria, made the armies too big for one command...
...Under her own purchases and Lend-Lease combined, Britain had received from the U.S., since the start of war, more $4,400,000,000 of materials, equip...
...late as June 15, the U.S. had only 128 light tanks, one medium tank, no heavy tanks at all. Prospects for delivery of light tanks: 300 a month by October. Prospects for delivery of heavy tanks: none have even been ordered. (It takes 397 light and medium tanks to equip each of the five armored divisions the Army will have in service next month. But the Army wants three more armored divisions...