WAR DEPARTMENT
                                
                           Washington
 
                            MEMORANDUM
                                   December 25, 1941
                            Supply for 1942
 
 
     1. The means of warfare which will become available to the anti-
 
Axis powers in 1942 will come primarily from the stocks and production of
 
Russia, the British Empire and the United States.
 
     a. Russian stocks and production are unkown, but can be
 
assumed quite properly as inadequate for Russia's strategic role in
 
1942.
 
     b. British Empire stocks and production are known, but it is
 
doubtful that there can be any appreciable increase in production over
 
present forecasts.
 
     c. American stocks and production are known. Production
 
schedules have been prepared based on appropriations to include all 
 
but the last supplemental (3d Supplemental, Fiscal Year 1942.) With 
 
additional appropriations, the amounts in these schedules can be 
 
increased.
 
     2. The means of warfare should be produced to fit the strategic
 
concept of defeating the enemy. However, the establishment of production 
 
takes so much time that the items scheduled for 1942 cannot be greatly 
 
changed without causing a serious reduction in output during that year. 
 
Consequently, present production schedules for 1942 should be changed  
 
as little as possible. The change in emphasis on the production of certain 
 
types of supplies for 1942 should be effected within the increased productive 
 
capacity available primarily in the United States. In other words, for 1942 
 
there are two sources of supply:
 
     a. The stocks and presently scheduled production of the anti-
 
Axis powers.