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                    APPENDIX "E"
 
     ATTRITION LOSSES OF AMPHIBIOUS LANDING CRAFT
 
         Plans which involve using landing craft for successive
 
operations must take account of losses. In planning for HUSKY,
 
the British are assuming 20% of those initially assigned will 
 
be unavailable for the assault due to operational and training
 
attrition; the UNITED STATES is assuming 10% operational and
 
training loss prior to assault. Both the British and UNITED
 
STATES are assuming 30% loss in the attack. On basis of
 
UNITED STATES assumed loss figures, out of 100 landing craft
 
assigned to an operation, 90 will be available for the initial
 
assault and 63 will be available for assignment to a second
 
operation. Of these 63, fifty-seven will be available for the
 
second assault and 40 will remain after the second assault.
 
After a third operation, 25 out of the original 100 wlll remain.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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