Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-27
War Cost the United States $22,0000OOOO0
" Compiled Statistics Give Figures -Nunba Men
ClssedW
Fought Guns Ammunition and Apane Manufactured of

Seoie 10 eVelOpment or the Eu.
ropean war. In the American Army
the allowance in 1912 was four ma
chine guns per regiment. In 1919 the
new Army plans provided for an
equipment Of 336 machine guns per
regiment or eighty-four times as
many The entire number of Ameri-
can machine guns produced to the
end of 1918 was $4,000.
During the war the Browning All.
tomato rifle and the Browning ma.
chine gun were developed, put into
quantity production and used in large
numbers in the final battles in
france. The Browning machine guns
are believed to be more effective than
the corresponding weapons used in
any other Army.
American production of rifle ammu-
milton amounted to approximately
3,5OO.000,000 Of which 1.500,OO0.O0O
were shipped overseas.
When war was declared the United
States had sufficient light artillery
to equip an army of $780, 900 men, and
shortly found itself confronted with
the problem of preparing to equip
100000 men. Up to the end Of April.
1919, the number of complete artil-
lery units produced in American
plants was more than 5000, or equal
to all those purchased from France
and England during the war. The
number of rounds of complete artil-
lery ammunition produced in Ameri-
nj &c t.
as compared with 5000, 900 rounds Sc
cured from the French and British.
So far as the allies were concerned,
the European war was in large meas
ure fought with American powder
and high explosives. At the end of
the war American production of
smokeless powder was As per cent
greater than the French and British
production combined. The American
production of high explosives was
40 per cent greater than Great Bril-
tain's and nearly double that of
France.
During the war America produced
10000 tons of gas, much Of which was
sold.to the French and British.
Out OF. every hundred days that our
France they were supported by their
own artillery for seventy-flve days.
by British artillery for five days, and
by French for one and one-half days.
OF the remaining eighteen and one
half days that they were in line with
out artillery eighteen days were in
quiet sectors and only half OF one
day In each hundred was in active =
sectors.
In round numbers, the United States
had in France $500 pieces of artil-
lery, OF which nearly 500 were made
in America, and we used on the firing
line 1880 pieces Of which over 100
were made in America.
On the declaration of war the
United States had f1fty-five training
airplanes, Of which ffty-one were
classified as obsolete and the other
four as obsolescent.
When the United States entered the
war the allies made the designs of
their planes available to the Amsri-
can Army and before the end Of hes
tilities furnished from their own man.
ufacture $500 service planes. Avia-
ton training schools in the United
States graduated $500 men from ele-
mentary courses and 4,O2s from adj
vanced courses. More than 5000
pilots and observers were sent over
seas. The total personnel of the
air service-otficers. students and en-
listed men-increased from 1900 at
the outbreak of the war to nearly
100000 at its close.
X
There were produced in the United
States to November 80, 1918, more
than 5000 training planes and more
than $1,000 training engines. The
De Haviland-4 observation and day
bombing plane was the only plano
the United States put into quantity
production. Before the signing Of
the armistice 1927 had been COM
pleted and 1885 shipped overseas.
The plane was successfully used at
the front for three months.
The production Of the twelve -cylin- .
It Continued on Third Page)