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Fact 2. The Army's gasoline program has been expanded and re-expanded as aircraft production increased. The Navy's escort vessel schedules, off to a slow start and interrupted by shifts in strategy, have been stepped up to cope with the U-boat. The Baruch rubber report, with its recommendation for 1,037,000 tons of capacity, was drawn up before anybody knew how many component parts would be needed elsewhere...
...report last week that U.S. merchant-marine casualties in one year of war had reached 3,200 or 3.8% of the crews* underlined the gravity of the U-boat campaign-a campaign which may yet stalemate the war and will certainly delay final Allied victory...
...pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production is at the rate of 20 to 30 a month. Hitler should have a fleet of 500-700 or more by spring, and the rate of losses now inflicted by Allied planes and ships will have to be greatly increased before the growth of the German fleet...
...Allies are desperately fighting submarines with planes. Two out of every three R.A.F. bombers have been fighting the Battle of the Atlantic. Practically every German city under major attack in the last twelve months manufactures some U-boat part. Last week R.A.F. bombers, in their 112th raid on Cologne, made the heaviest attack since May 30, when 5,000 acres and 250 factories were ruined. Last week's raid was timed to flatten Cologne's burgeoning reconstruction, level factories just resuming the production of diesel engines and U-boat batteries. The British dropped 100 two-ton bombs...
Doenitz devised the U-boats' "wolfpack" tactics, and he has recently sent them to sea in multiple, menacing "echelons of packs." Said he when he took command last week: "I will put the entire concentrated strength of the Navy into the submarine war. . . . The entire German Navy will henceforth be put into the service of inexorable U-boat warfare. The German Navy will fight to the finish...