b.  Economic. The liberation of any AXIS controlled terri-
 
tories will impose commitments of supplies and equipment for
 
economic rehabilitation required to further UNITED NATIONS
 
operations.
 
UNITED NATIONS CAPABILITIES
 
27. Air power.
 
     Current estimates indicate that by July, 1943, the UNITED
 
NATIONS will have assembled in the EUROPEAN-AFRICAN area some
 
5400 bombers and 5600 fighters, the equivalent of about 110
 
American bomber groups and about 56 fighter groups. This air
 
power will constantly increase and will be made most effective    
 
by properly integrating its employment with current and projected operations.
 
28.  In the EUROPEAN-AFRICAN area, the UNITED NATIONS can in 1943-1944:
 
     a. Intensify the anti-submarine campaign.
 
     b. intensify the bomber offensive against the AXIS war
 
effort with a view to reducing the AXIS war potential to the
 
extent that cross-channel operations may be initiated as early
 
as possible in 1944.
 
     c. Continue the bombing of ITALY with s view to eliminating ITALY from the war.
 
     d. Furnish munitions to RUSSIA and the combatant French.
 
     e. in 1943, compel dispersion of AXIS ground and air forces
 
and possibly cause diversions from the Russian Front 
 
by continued limited offensives in the MEDITERRANEAN.
 
     f. Build up forces in the UNITED KINGDOM to initiate cross-
 
channel operations in 1944.
 
     g.  Invade the Continent by:
 
     (1) Cross-channel operations, or
 
     (2) Operations from the MEDITERRANEAN.
 
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