So great was the quantity of U.S.-made instruments of war piling up in England for the invasion that some Englishmen remarked: it was a wonder that the island did not sink under the weight.
In the hills near one country town, where mammoth green tanks snort around an ancient castle, and groves of trees hide hundreds of howitzers, U.S. newsmen gazed last week at a cool $4,000,000,000 worth of materiel.
New, raw buildings were crammed with motor parts, tires, thousands of tons of food. The wood from opened crates, carefully salvaged for fuel...
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