Americans need not hope for bigger gas rations because the Axis has been wiped out in Africa. Although the Mediterranean is now open, so that oil from Iraq can be carried west, transatlantic shipments from the U.S. east coast will get no smaller. During the entire North African campaign, the big refineries at Haifa and Suez had to operate at top capacity just to supply the British Eighth Army and Mediterranean Fleet. To get more oil for the big Allied armies now in northwest Africa (and soon perhaps in southern Europe) tankers would have to bring it from the bigger...
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