![]() ![]() The battles of ultimate decision remain to be fought. ![]() Yet the end will be as costly as the beginning, in effort and probably in lives. The United States has experienced great defeats but has won through to great victories. Up to the end of the current fiscal year, the war will have cost the United States about 400 billion dollars in appropriations and contract authorizations.Īt this great price - and an intangible cost which is incalculable - the United States, fighting as part of the greatest coalition in history, has achieved battle results which are still short of complete triumph but which have decided the outcome of the war. We have lost 14,600 planes in combat and 17,500 through accidents in this country, but built about 232,403 planes between July 1, 1940, and September 30, 1944. We have lost a minimum of 3,750,000 gross tons of merchant shipping, but have built 45,000,000 deadweight tons we have lost two battleships, nine carriers, nine cruisers, 50 destroyers and 32 submarines, but since 1938 we have built a fleet many times the size of the prewar Navy and larger than the combined navies of the world. The fourth year opens with the end of the war in sight.ĭuring the three years of global conflict the United States has transported 5,000,000 armed men overseas (up to November 1944), and has suffered 528,795 casualties. AMERICA'S third year of war closed with United States troops fighting in the Philippine Islands and along the borders of Germany. ![]()
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