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satisfaction in the thought that the city is now not far from the Russian
front lines, which are daily drawing closer.
In answer to a question from Marshal Stalin, the PRIME MINISTER
said that other submarine assembling points were Kiel and Hamburg.
FIELD MARSHAL BROOKE said that General Marshall had fully
covered the situation now existing on the Western Front and the
operations which are contemplated for the future. He said that the
British Chiefs of Staff were in full accord with the plan for the future
operations which General Marshall had outlined.
THE PRIME MINISTER stated that both the British and Americans
have amphibious branches in their services. The officer commanding
the British amphibious branch is at present in ARGONAUT and he,
the Prime Minister, would like very much to have him meet with the
Russian amphibious experts and obtain from them any information
which the Russians would be kind enough to provide.
In reply to a question from Marshal Stalin, GENERAL MARSHALL
explained that the front of the main effort in the impending opera-
tions covered three crossings over a distance of 25 or 30 miles and
afforded room for not more than five divisions. The front eventually
would extend all along the Rhine down as far as Düsseldorf, a total
of
some 50 or 60 miles. He pointed out that, as was the case in
Normandy, it will be necessary to assault initially on a narrow front
but this front would be expanded as rapidly as possible. He said
that the Ruhr was very heavily fortified and for that reason would
be by-passed. However, troops attacking on this front would soon
get into good tank country.
In answer to a question from Marshal Stalin, GENERAL MARSHALL
said the reserves available for the proposed attack were believed to
be ample.
MARSHAL STALIN said that he asked the question because in the
Russian central campaign 9,000 tanks were used up. He would like
to know how many tanks the Allies expected to employ.
GENERAL MARSHALL said that roughly one in every three divisions
employed would be a tank division. He said that on March 1st
General Eisenhower will have 89 divisions at his disposal to cover
the front from the Mediterranean to Holland, not including Italy;
nine of these were French and all the remainder were either British
or American.
Through answers to his questions it was made clear to Marshal
Stalin that there are nearly 10,000 Allied tanks in the European
Theater. The British divisions number 18,000 men, the American
divisions 14,000, and armored divisions contain 10,000. There will
be available 4,000 heavy bombers, each carrying up to 3,000 pounds
of bombs.
MARSHAL STALIN explained that in their attack on the central
German position, the Russians employed 100 divisions, which was
20 more than the Germans had. He was interested in the preponder-
ance that the British and Americans would have over the Germans.
THE PRIME MINISTER pointed out that the British and American
forces had overwhelming preponderance in airplanes and armored
troops but not great preponderance in infantry. He stressed
the
necessity of exploiting to the full such superiority in strength as
existed.
MARSHAL STALIN said that the British and Americans had asked
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