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Hailed by Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal as "of supreme importance," a new Research Board for National Security was announced this week. Its purpose: to see that there is no letdown in research on new military weapons between the disbanding of OSRD at war's end and the creation by Congress of a permanent agency to continue...
...Secretary Stimson's periodic announcement of war casualties made grim reading last week. Total U.S. casualties in three years of war now total 663,859, more than two and a half times the U.S. casualties of World...
...were during the concentrated and furious period of the Normandy invasion. D-day also marked the beginning of a sharp ascent (see chart) which continued to mount as the fighting raged closer to Germany's borders. U.S. Army casualties in Europe from D-day to Jan. 1, said Stimson, have been 54,562 dead, 232,672 wounded, 45,678 missing. The Secretary could have added, had he been so minded, that while the casualties on Normandy beaches were lower than the most optimistic had guessed, the total as of Jan. 1, 1945 was substantially higher than even the pessimistic...
Included in Mr. Stimson's figures were the casualties in the Ardennes sector during the first three weeks of the German breakthrough: 40,000.* This figure still did not entirely reflect the change wrought by the German breakthrough; e.g., the 106th Division, with more than 8,000 casualties, was smashed, had to be rebuilt before it could go into action again...
...President read a report from Secretary Stimson. He asked Jimmy Byrnes to reiterate the needs of industry. Admiral King spoke briefly. George Marshall made the strongest appeal...