Her own.   
 
      
 
 
Measured by number of personnel or numbers of first line combat 
      ships tile comparison is even more unfavorable to us.
 
      
 
 
(3) In addition to the advantages of gr %eater plant capacity, 
      German operational conditions enable them to achieve greater 
      results with a much smaller force than can be obtained by a British 
      air offensive over Germany having regard to the differences in 
      distances. Germany bombs England from northern France and Belgium.
 
      
 
 
(4) To equalize the great disparity between German and British 
      air-craft stocks to be caught up and to start towards building 
      up a supremacy in numbers that will counteract the geographical 
      operational obstacles, there is no doubt that the United States 
      must be able to produce by June, 1942, between 4000 and 5000 
      tactical planes per month, of which a much larger number than 
      now should be four-engined heavy bombers; the importance of the 
      heavy bomber for an effective air offensive over Germany cannot 
      be over-emphasized.
 
      (5) Since the bringing of new capacity into full production takes 
      eighteen months, it is essential that these new plans should 
      be decided upon and put in hand forthwith. 0nly in this way can 
      it be established that we are planning on a scale adequate for 
      victory.
 
      
 
 
III
 
      While no genius or super-human effort can change in 1942 the 
      course of production that is now effectively planned, it takes 
      neither genius nor super-human will to take the effective steps 
      now to secure the fighting fruits necessary in 1942.
 
      
 
 
All that is needed is that now, in the days immediately ahead, 
      the
 
      
 
 
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