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Originally Posted by klem
All true except that the Allies were not in a position to launch a successfuil invasion before June '44.
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In the U.S. shipyard in 1943 "produced an unprecedented number of ships" in 1943, the American shipyard launched the merchant ships with a total tonnage 19.2 million deadweight tons, which exceeded more than twice the tonnage of the vessels built in 1942
Makalvi in 1965, claims that plans landings across the English Channel in August 1943 were unrealistic because "in 1942, the Allies suffered heavy losses in the courts, when the losses were greater than the possibility of their completion." However, the American historian McInnis immediately after the war, published data, which indicate that in 1943, the American shipyard launches tonnage "is ten times more than the tonnage of their losses." American historian McNeill in 1953, only slightly McInnis said. He concluded that by August 1943 the "new tonnage is nine times higher than the loss of tonnage from all causes".
During the years of World War II, the U.S. built merchant ships with a total displacement of 33 million tons, and the military - to 8 million tons.
In August 1943, the British merchant fleet tonnage, despite Poterna is maintained at a high level and amounted to 13.5 million tons.
Status of the sea was so prosperous that in early August 1943 Chiefs had to officially inform the chairman of the military production that they are no longer considered a bottleneck merchant navy for the war overseas.
On the eve of the Tehran conference in Cairo, the special Anglo-American Conference, which found that "the review of applications for the court rather than the estimated total deficiency in tonnage on the adopted plan to get even some slack". After this, the JCP strategic operations was forced to admit that there was an opportunity to "provide for scheduled maritime and ground operations."
American journalist Ralph Ingersoll in the acclaimed book "The Secret" refers to a conference in Quebec (August 1943), which found that, "for the plan" Overlord "(the plan landing of British and American troops in Northern France. - VS ) existing landing craft is not enough ... ". But when experts have carefully studied all the possibilities, says British military historian Herman, and especially to investigate the possibility of rational use of the merchant navy, it was found that "the strategic plans are not threatened by the lack of real courts, and a flaw that actually existed only on paper"
Joint Planning Committee, presented at a conference in Quebec report, which noted that "the operation planned for throughout 1943 and into the summer of 1944, provided a sufficient number of amphibious ships, vessels and resources"