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...only potential. The Japanese merchant marine on Dec. 7, 1941 amounted to about 6,000,000 gross tons. Since then the Allies have sunk 170 Japanese bottoms, probably sunk 18, damaged 80. Altogether about 1,250,000 tons have been destroyed. But these sinkings have been largely offset by Jap seizures, requisitions and purchases-such as the huge coastwise fleets of British firms in China, Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Butterfield & Swire. Old ships which have had to be broken up have probably been at least partly replaced. New production, now somewhat under 500,000 tons a year, is increasing gradually...
Manpower. The Japanese Army has scarcely been touched. In all the South Pacific theater and in Burma, not more than three or four Jap divisions are in immediate contact with Allied troops. Probably not more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers have been knocked out. The Japs still have almost 3,500,000-about 750,000 in Manchukuo, 800,000 in China, perhaps 100,000 in Indo-China, Malaya and Thailand, more than 75,000 in Burma, perhaps 90,000 in the southern islands, and all the rest in "depot" divisions in Formosa and Japan...
...Japanese at the rate of better than two for one* victory will call for greater Allied numbers than are now to be seen on any Asiatic horizon-except in China, where offensive equipment is lacking. Wrote Archibald T. Steele in the Chicago Daily News last week: "We are killing Japs at the rate of a couple of hundred daily, but Jap youths are coming of age at the rate of a thousand daily...
...Power. The qualitative superiority of U.S. pilots is now unquestioned. Yet there is so far no conclusive evidence that Jap air power has been seriously hurt. U.S. pilots in the Solomons say they think they are up against the Jap second team, but that does not preclude the possibility that the first team is resting somewhere on the bench...
...battle planes. About 2,000 have been destroyed in all theaters. The Japanese have doubtless suffered much wear & tear behind the actual fronts. But the present Japanese rate of production is estimated at around 1,000 per month, and there have been 14 months of war. Jap first-line strength is probably still 5,000 or over-perhaps equal to Germany's quantitatively. Pilot losses have been heavy, but it is impossible to know, for instance, how many of the pilots from the four Jap carriers which sank at Midway pancaked near other Jap vessels and were saved...