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make our economy flexible enough to encompass other jobs, com-
pletely different in nature, yet comparable in magnitude.
While we plan and produce for the destruction of Japan, we must
plan and produce for the rebuilding of Europe, the rebuilding neces-
sary to help Europe get back on her feet, so her countries will be
restored to economic health and stability. While we keep up pres-
FINISHING THE JOB
sure for sufficient manpower to produce the equipment needed to beat
Japan, we must gear our economy to the absorption of the increasing
Laying the Roud to Tokyo
number of workers who will be laid off as cut-backs gain momentum.
While we must keep our sights and our energies firmly fixed on the
Three years ago, while Great Britain and the United States were
primary objective of victory, we must work toward transition, the
locked in a death struggle with Germany, Japan rolled victoriously
kind of well-timed transition that will prevent depression from
across the great distances of the Pacific and Asia until she controlled
coming to us as the guest of peace.
17 million square miles of land and ocean !
These things we have been planning for and must plan for even
Today she has been squeezed back to 7 million square miles. But
more vigorously. Now, with final victory in sight somewhere down
those last 7 million square miles are the hardest. They're closest to
the road, we must look ahead to a destination beyond victory, to the
home base for the Japanese, farther from home base for us. They are
kind of America in which the victorious members of the armed forces,
defended by the strongest and best equipped of all Japnese forces.
together with all citizens, may enjoy the fruits of their bitterly-fought,
Engaging these troops and destroying them, forcing the capitulation
hard-won victory.
of Japan, involves the greatest movement of men and matériel ever
Our obligations include:
undertaken.
In this vast transfer of men and supplies, we shall move 3 million
1. Making a durable peace so that the sons and daughters of our
troops out of Europe and many of them half way around the world,
fighting men will not have to fight another war.
together with the necessary matériel and supplies. Soon we shall
2. Building a vital, invigorated peacetime economy in which
have nearly 6 million men in all branches of the service in the actual
there will be goods and jobs for all.
theater of combat.
Those obligations have been solemnly accepted. Work toward their
Manila, our large advance base, is 6,200 miles from San Francisco
fulfillment has been started, is well under way now, and will be carried
and 14,000 miles from the major European ports. To land on the
on at accelerated pace. This work at present is travelling down five
European Continent, our main force had only to cross the English
main highways, highways which promise to converge at the ultimate
Channel; in contrast, Manila is 1,760 miles from Tokyo. (See map :
goals of a world of durable peace, and an America of unprecedented
The 6,000 Mile Bridge Across the Pacific . )
prosperity. They are:
In waging war against Japan, we must build airfields, fuel depots,
1. Meet all requirements of the all-out Pacific War.
road and rail lines; we must clear or build harbors; we must construct
power plants and power lines; we must provide barracks; we must
2. Reconvert and expand civilian production as fast as
build hospital facilities larger than the combined medical resources
possible, both to increase the supply of goods, and
of New York and Chicago.
provide jobs for those who have been released from
The Army Service Forces and the Army Air Forces will obtain
the armed forces and from war work.
heavier ammunition and bomb supplies than were used in the war in
3. Protect human resources as far as possible in the ines-
Europe. We shall be able to drop as much as 10,000 tons of bombs
capable shock of reconversion.
upon Japan in a single day, or double what Germany got during the
4. Provide food and aid that will help the liberated coun-
days of heaviest assault. The ferocity of the war in the Pacific is such
tries lift themselves to their feet and once more become
that more artillery ammunition will be expended there-as the battle
self-sustaining.
for Okinawa indicates-than was used in Europe. Fully 3 million
shells were fired in Okinawa. Some of the newer Japanese hide-out
5. Work toward a high-level economy so America can
caves are built on two levels, and hence enormous firepower must be
know, in peacetime, the twin blessings of abundant
used to drive out or kill Japanese concealed in them.
production and full employment.
3
2
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