The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-01

Out of every hundred days that
American combat divisions were IN
line in France they were supported
by their own artillery for seventy
five days, by British artillery for five
days and by French for one and a
half days.
In round numbers America had in
France $500 pieces of artillery, of
which nearly 500 were made in Am
erica, and Americans used on the fir
ing line $3.50 pieces of which over
100 were made in America.
Arplance Production
81 When the United States entered
the war the allies made the designs
OF their planes available to Ameri-
cans, and before the end Of hostilities
furnished from their own manufac-
ture $4,000 service planes.
Aviation training schools in the
United States graduated 8,602 men
from elementary courses and 4,O2S
from advanced courses. More than
5000 pilots and observers were sent
overseas.
There were produced in the United
States to November 80, 1918, more
than 5000 training planes and more
than 10000 training engines.
The American air force at the front
grew from three squadrons in April
to forty-five in November, 1913. On
November IL the fofty-fye squadrons
had an equipment ofF74O planes,
OF 1858 planes sent to the zone of
the advance for American ayiators,
667 or nearly one.fourth, were of An
esian production. +
tsnesican az sxrustlyon E1oughy
down in combat 755 Enemy planes,
while their own losses of planes NUM-
bered only 357
American divisions were in battle
for two hundred days and engaged in
thirteen major operations.
From the middle of August until
the end of the war American diyis!
ions held during the greater part Of
the time front longer than that held
by the British.
u. S. Troops Engaged in Single
Battle
In October the American divisions
held 1O1 miles Of line of twenty-three
per cent of the entire western front
In the battle of St Mihiel $4,000
Americans were engaged, compared
with about 100000 on the northern
side in the battle of Gettysburg. The
artillery fred more than one million
shells in four hours, which is the
most intense Concentration of artil-
lery fire recorded in history
The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted
for forty-seven days during which /,
100000 American troops were engag-
ed.
The Money Cost
The war cost the United States di-
rectly about $4,000, 100000, or near
ly enough to pay the entire cost of
running the American government
from 1871 up to the outbreak of the
European war. For every hundred
American soldiers and sailors who
served in the war with Germany two
were killed OF died of disease during
the period of hostilities, The number
Of men serving in the armed forces
of the nation daring the war was 4
sec. 600, of whom 100000 served IN
the army.
Some of the Figures
The war cost the United States con-
siderably more than $1,o0o,00o an
hour for over two years.
Americas expenditures in the war
were sufficient to have carried on the
Revolutionary war continuously for
more than. thousand years at the
rate Of expenditure which that war
actually involved.
During the first three months ex-
penditures were at the rate Of ST.
00o,000 day During the next year
they averaged more than $4,000, 900
a day. For the final ten months the
daily average was over $44,000,000
The total war costs of all nations
were about s186,O0O,OOo,OOo, of which
the allies and the United States spent
two-thirds and the enemy one-third.
The three nations spending the
greatest amounts were Germany,
Great Britain and France, in that or.
der. After them come the United
States and Austria-Hungary with sub