English Translation

71 - 6 - Until the fall of 1940 (introduction of compulsory military service for all men from 21 to 35 years, thus covering 161/2 million Americans) there was only military service on a voluntary basis in the United States of America. The army consisted in 1939 of the regular army (standing of the volunteer army; strength of peace: 179 Oð0 man), the (even if voluntary) militia (National Guard; strength in peace: 205 000 man) and the "Organized Reserves" (Reserveoffociers and Specialists) as tribes for new organizations, the strength of war was estimated at 2 500 000 man before the introduction of compulsory military service (in World War II the U.S. had. The Regular Army included 3 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry division, the National Guard 18 infantry division and 4 cavalries divisions, all of which included 38 regiments infantry, 15 regiment cavalerie, 1 reg. motor vehicle combat troops, 26 regiment artillery, 29 regiment coastal artillery, 9 technical regiment (pioneers). In Hawaii. There were 20 000 - 25 O00 men, on the Panama Canal and in the Philippines each 1 division. Kriegsmarine, The war fleet of the USA. is, next to the Great Britain, the strongest of the Wolt, However, the battleships are outdated, since the USA, the construction break between the main sea powers 1921/22 agreed for battleships until their departure, 1936, have remained. Since then, however, a whole series of replacements and new buildings (including ships of 45 O0Öt) have been approved on sites or. In 1948, the fleet, including the older ships, will include: 28 battleships, 8 aircraft carriers, 55 heavy and light cruisers, about 130 submarines. - vessels (1939): 15 slaughter vessels with a total of 464 300 tonnes (referred to as 8 under construction or approved); 6 aircraft carriers with 134 500 tonnes (deferred from 1 under construction); 2 aircraft parent vessels with 19 725 tonnes (exferredfrom 3 under construction and approved); 18 heavy cruisers with a combined of 171 200 tonnes; 19 light cruisers of 160 500 tonnes in construction or authorised; 228 destroyers with a combination of 285 065 tonnes (referred to as 33 under construction); 8 Destroyer miner with 9 400 tonnes; 6 sub-sea cruisers with 14 170 tonnes together; 90 submarines with 79 215 tonnes together (repeated as 18 under construction), 2 minelayers with 8 400 tonnes (received as 1 under construction) 41 mine hunters with 34 440 tonnes in total (revealed as 2 under construction). 4 cannon boats with a total of 6 540 tonnes; 5 river cannon ships with a combined capacity of 2 310 tonnes; 13 sub-boat hunters together with 975 tonnes. (referred to in paragraph 3); 9 watch-vessels with a combined capacity of 3 870 tonnes; 35 coast guard cruisers with a total capacity of 57 30 tonnes; and numerous coastal watch-boats, destroyers and submarine escorts, school, special, workshop, tanker vessels, etc. - Staff strength: 130 000 men. Bases_1. Order: Norfolk (Virginia), San Diego (Kalifor- nien), Guantánamo (Cuba), San Francisco, Pearl Harbour (Hawaii). The main plan is to strongly secure the port of Newport (Rhode Island) (for the protection of New York). Of great strategic importance for the United States Navy is the strong Panama Canal, which, if necessary, enables the unification of the Pacific and Atlantic fleets of the USA. In September 1940, Great Britain also granted the US. for 99 years the right to establish flotation and air bases on the English islands off the American continent (Klei- ne Antilles, Jamaica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Newfoundland).