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THE CHINESE AIR FORCE PROGRAM
1. This program was designed to improve the efficiency
of the Chinese Air Force during the war, and approved for
implementation, after the completion of the war, by SWNCC
83/17, as a program to supply equipment for 8 1/3 groups
and supporting units. Equipment for this program can be
made available to the Chinese only through the machinery
of the Surplus Property Sales Act. The estimated value of
the complete program is $141,200,000; transfers already
completed aggregate $30,000,000; the total value of
supplies presently available for transfer from War Depart-
ment excess is $53,775,000 of this latter figure,
$25,975,000 represents military type items, and $27,800,000
represents civilian items. Cost of supplies required to
complete the program, but not available from War Depart-
ment excesses, is $57,425,000. Supply action was
temporarily suspended by the State Department on 11 August
1946, at which time the War Department directed its field
agencies to suspend the turnover of equipment to the
Chinese but to be prepared to resume when directed. Supply
of civilian type items only was later authorized.
2. Civilian type items have been earmarked for the
program in the U.S., the Philippines and Okinawa. High
level polioy decisions will be required to clarify the
surplus property muddle (involving the Foreign Liquidation
Corporation and bulk sales contracts to the Philippines
and China) now interfering with the transfer of items to
China. The problems regarding transfer of such equipment
in the Philippines were raised in a letter from the Sec-
retary of War to the Secretary of State dated 16 December
1946; no reply has yet been received. One of the greatest
factors interfering with the transfer of civilian type
items to China is payment for transportation. The War
Department does not possess the funds to pack and ship the
equipment from the U.S., the Philippines or Okinawa.
3. Military type items stookpiled in the Pacific
Areas for the program are rapidly deteriorating, In order
to meet the initial requirements of the 8 1/3 Group
Program, 129 additional airoraft must be turned over to
the Chinese. In order to rehabilitate only the 37 B-24's
included in this figure, it is estimated that a total of
300,000 mon hours and $550,000 would be required. Military
type iters stookpiled in the continental U.S. for this pro-
gran are in good repair, but no funds are available in the
War Department to effect a shipment of these supplies
overseas.
SECPET
e ARCHIVES SERVICE" RECORDO
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DECLASSIFIED
E. o. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
OSD letter, April 12, 1974
By NLT. He , NARS Date 6-26-75
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