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...increase in food production last year over average production in 1935-39 was not matched by a corresponding increase in storage facilities. Transportation, too, is lacking. The armed services now have their food warehouses filled, and reserves earmarked for invasion fronts are choking British and U.S. ports and inland terminals...
...initiative would not be theirs. When the Allies came, they would almost certainly land at many points, almost certainly make a selection later of the softest spots to develop their thrust inland. Some of the German troops would fight it out on the shore...
...where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air Force, which will give close support to the invasion, sent his mediums against the coast, airfields, railroad centers. Swarms of his fighter bombers also hacked from dawn to dusk, bored deeply inland...
...blow came three days after Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten moved from inland New Delhi to Kandy on the island of Ceylon off India's southern tip. Under command of salty British Admiral Sir James F. Somerville, the task-force carriers turned into a dawn wind, launched their planes near Sumatra...
...King's old-line left-hand man, Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), who now has nearly 750,000 airmen serving under him. Said he: the Navy had to tram near the coast, but the Army's "abandoned" airfields were nearly all inland; the Army would let them to the Navy only temporarily. The Committee accepted his explanation, with reservations...