b. That present U.S. commitments will be executed.
These include dispatch of the 41st and one additional division to 
Australia, one division to New Zealand, and the loan of sufficient 
shipping to the British to move 40,000 troops to the Middle East,
 and the building up of a small air force in China - India. Prov-
iding the British furnish the necessary planes from aircraft now 
allotted to them, two groups pursuit, one group medimm bombardment 
and two groups light bor~bardment should be sent to the Middle East 
as the only additional U.S. commitment to theaters other than 
Western Europe. This will have a corresponding effect in diminishing 
the U.S. planes available for the offensive in Europe.
 
                           c. That Russia is still effective in the war to the 
extent that the bulk of the German forces are required on the Russian 
front.
 
                          d. That Axis forces Western Europe remain at approx-
mately their present strength.
 
              7. From an exmmination of the hostile situation, it is con-
cluded that a successful attack can be made only with combat power 
as follows:
 
             a. Adequate air superiority over the enemy involving
the use by the Allies of a minimum of 3,000 fighters and 2,850 combat
planes other than fighters. (Combined British and U.S. ).
 
             b. Ability to land in the first wave the major combat 
elements of an lnfantry and armored force of at least six divisions. 
At the beginning of the actual invasion, U. S. land forces in England
or en route should be approximately : six armored, five motorized, 
18 infantry and one air-borne division.
 
                           c. An ability to land on the western coast of Europe 
behind the leading wave a weekly increment initially of at least 
100,000 troops, and, after the invasion forces have landed, a contin-
uous flow of reinforcements from the United States at the maximum 
rate that shipping will permit.