The sub., 1945-12-06

associates, the Air Forces, the Navy,
 industry and other cooperating
 agencies, down to the humbleSt
 workman, we won the race.
 "The war ended in a flash of
 atomic energy one month and
 fourteen days after the end of the
 fiscal year."
 The report lists the operations of
 seven technical services in ASF:
 Quartermaster, Ordnance, Engin-
 eers, Medical Signal Corps, Chem ical Warfare and Transportation. There are seven administrative services, the Offices of the Adju- tant, the Judge Advocate General
 and the Provost Marshal General,
 the Divisions of Finance, Special Services and Information and Education, and Chaplains.
 "The Division of Plans and Op- erations," says the report, made the overall logisticS plans for the war. It had to anticiate rpequire- ! ments, make long-range estimates of how many men and how much
 of what equipment would be needed where, three months, a year and ! even two years in advance. Wher- ever a soldier fired a shot, laid
 down an airstrip, landed on beach, threw a bridge across river, cap- tured an enemy strong g-point, or l opened a can of rations anywhere in the world, he was actually &C.,
 complaining the end result of plans long-before laid down by the un- ! sung and largely unknown officers l in this smoothly operating division
 of the Army Service Forces" Some idea of the figures included in the report can be gained from l the statement that in the fiscal year of 1945, the ASF paid out $54,- 900 900, 900 and that its operations required about 8,000,O00 men and
 women in the Army or engaged in Army work.
 The Training Division taught B. 800, ,OOO men in 360 occupational
 specialties and 10000 soldiers in S2 foreign languages. Special schools of this division qualified B6 per- cent of the illiterates inducted in- ! to the Army and fitted them for
 military assignments.
 Procurement operations, totalling $15O, ,OOO, GOO, 900 were conducted by the Office of the Director of Ma terial.
 "The Office of the Fiscal Direc- tor," says the report, lis the great 1 est paymaster in the world, the
 biggest life insurance institution. the most extensive banker and l cashier, the largest welfare agency and the worlds busineSt comptrol- Ter. It issues seven million checks 1 a month and has disbursed 172 bil- lion dollars since July ], 194O." The Supply Staff of ASF shipped overseas, during the fiscal year, 56 million tons, as compared with 39 million tons the previous year. Dur- ing the war the Transportation Corps moved 32,1OO,O00 troops in the United States by train, 100000 by bus in addition to handling B. OOO, 900 individual and small group reservations. Tn Europe alone, the
 Corps debarked 4,0O0, 900 American troops and 44,718,174 tons of sup pile sfrom 9,571 ships.
 Ordnance procurement alone dur ing the war amounted to 34,OOO,- OO,O0O. American soldiers in France shot more than 5000 rifle cartridges minute, day and night. The report credits the Quarter
 master Corps with the achievement of making ':our soldiers the best fed, best clothed, best sheltered and
 equipped in the world"
 Tn relating the work done by the Chemical Warfare Division, the re- port says:
 "The principal reason the Axis
 did not use poison gas against our troops in Europe and the Pacific probably was that they were afraid to. They knew that we were hold ing in reserve adequate stocks of gas more deadly than anything they themselves possessed"
 "The war is won," writes Gener- al Somervell in his conclusion. Tt remains for ASF to return our