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...project, suggested in TIME'S recent cover story (April 3, see cut) on Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the war-born Office of Scientific Research and Development, derives from OSRD's extraordinary effectiveness in World War II. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal appointed the "Committee on Postwar Research" which last week began to draft plans for the new agency. The committeemen have all been active in OSRD...
Since Pearl Harbor the U.S. has produced 171,257 planes. War Secretary Stimson revealed that the Army now has 75,000 planes, of which 34,000 are combat craft. The Navy recently announced that it has 37,700 aircraft of all kinds, giving the armed services a total strength of 112,700 planes. Franklin Roosevelt added some figures of his own: since the beginning of Lend-Lease (March 11, 1941) the U.S. has built 175,000 planes, shipped 33,000 to its allies...
...Secretary Stimson announced that the Army has 3,657,000 overseas, of its total strength of 7,700,000. These men are on every continent and hundreds of islands from Iceland to Biak. (Peak A.E.F. strength in World War I was 2,057,675.) To nourish this great force supply lines stretch more than 56,000 miles, to every continent. Some 1,150,000 of the Army's troops outside the U.S. are in the Air Forces...
Said Secretary Stimson: "It is on the shoulders of these men, and their comrades in the U.S. who are scheduled for overseas deployment, that the fate of the final phase of overall strategy-the period of decisive action-depends." In the U.S. are 1,300,000 trained men held as reserves, "ready to follow...
Jubilation. German captives were numbered at more than 15,000 in three weeks, an impressive proof of the swiftness of Allied attack, the disruption of German outfits. In Washington, Secretary Stimson jubilated over the performance of the new divisions of the U.S. II Corps who had never before been in battle. He attributed their "tireless energy" and "freshness and vigor" to the fact that casualties were immediately replaced by fresh troops to maintain the corps at full strength. Later it was announced that among the reinforcements were the U.S. 85th and 88th Divisions-not only battlegreen but entirely composed...