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of crossing that narrow strip of water—he has not yet, after fifteen months of war and seven months since France fell, even attempted to cross it with soldiers or tanks. : When he attempts to invade the United States —or Canada—he would have to face the problem of crossing with his armies THREE THOUSAND MILES of the Atlantic Ocean and facing not 50 ATLANTIC OCLAN The problem of invading England is all comprised in the small circle. There is a narrow strip of sea—tess than 26 miles at its narrow point—which Germany must eros: to invade England etther with an army or with planes. Sending planes over, of course, is a simple matter at far as distance is concerned, But invading the United States or Canada means traversing the im- mense mileage of ocean either to New York or New- joundland or from the Azores or other equally distant ports. rp million people on a small island with but small natural resources, but a vast nation with 130 million people and resources far exceeding his own. Now let us Jook at this problem as realistically as possible. Just what would be the job that Hitler would have on his hands? We have spoken of the “might” of Hitier’s armies. In what does that might consist? His armies are mighty because they are equipped with an endless supply of tanks, armored trucks, machine guns and great cannon and mortars, anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns and great motorcycle squadrons and planes, His army was no longer an army on foot. Ht was an army in trucks and in tanks plunging against its adversaries and mowing them down and rolling over them. Of course if Hitler ever attempted to invade America he would have to bring not only his: soldiers but all this equipment. Without it he would be helpless. Let us see then what he would have to bring across the $,000 miles of ocean to invade America. First, we have to decide how many men he would use to invade America and defeat us. Now right here the reader must understand that the German army leaders have shown immense intelli- gence. We know that they are not coming te Amer- ica with a handful of men—they are not going to attempt to conquer us without bringing enough men here to do the job, How many men would that be? When Hitler invaded little Norway he sent 60,000 men. When Mussolini attacked Ethiopia he used half a million men—When Hitler went into Poland— just across his borders and with only 36 million population—he marched with 1,000,000 men. When he moved against Holland, Belgium and France he used not less than TWO MILLION MEN. Estimates place the number far higher. Now is it not a fair assumption that to defeat the United States here he would have to have at least as many men as he took into France? Does anyone suppose that Hitler could conquer this country with anything less than three or four million men? He would have to have an army that erize and all the equipment necessary to make it irresistible. But let us suppose, however, that Hitler ‘was erazy enough to try to beat the United States with a mere million men. Just how much equipment would he have to bring along with the men to make them effective? The mass of war instru- ments that such an army requires staggers the imagination. The following figures are based on the equipment carried by American army units and are, therefore, very much under what the German army units carry. . This army would require: 19,320 machine guns 2,520 75mm. field guns 7,770 automatic rifles 1,120 155m. howitzers 2,690 anti-tank guns 6,930 mortars Vehicles: 65,590 trucks 1,610 tractors 19,820 trailers 1,756 ambulances 4,500 tanks 1,120 passenger cars 7,816 motorcycles 450 air-compressors 70 electric lighting sets Pianes: 1,820 Hight bombers 5,880 reconnaisance planes 1,650 pursuit planes 350 transport planes {a total of 9,800 planes) Anti-aircraft guns: 840 8mm, AA guns 1,680 87mm. AA guns 1,680 .50 calibre AA guns Of course such an army must have food, fuel and ammunition. This vast armada, with its modern weannna wanld have ta herine it2 fan4 tee Sense Tre eee, TRS ST OM EE ib 2OOG, ILS oil, its ammunition until the country is conquered. It would require: 9,000,000 Ibs. of rations and supplies a day 1,600,000 gallons of gasoline a day 150,000 galions of oil.