Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

From Germany, Ambassador Oshima is reporting to Tokyo that Germany’s internal transportation is suffering because 10 percent of its railroad locomotives and its river barges are servicing the Eastern Front. In the coming year, the Germans plan to build 60,000 tons of new river barges, make all the railroads in Germany double-track line, build a new rail line linking Berlin and Ukraine, build 200 locomotives, 500 passenger cars and 1,000 freight cars. New electric plants are being built in specifically named areas, including one in Norway, which will service a new aluminum plant that has just been completed. The total German aluminum production is currently 250,000 tons per year, with another 50,000 tons coming from occupied France.15