WAR DEPARTMENT
WAR DEPARTMENT GENERAL STAFF
OPERATIONS DIVISON
WASHINGTON
 
 
                              .                                            May 26, 1942.
 
MEMORANDUM FOR MAJOR CHESTER HAMMOND, J.A.G.D. White House Map Room.
 
Subject: War Supplies to Russia.
 
            In reply to your Memorandum for the Chief of Staff of May 22, 1942 relative advantages
and disadvantages of shipping war supplies to Russia via the Artic Ocean from Alaska, attention is
invited to the attached memorandum on this subject.
 
     I concur in the conclusion made by Colonel Bratton.
 
R. W. CRAWFORD, 
Brigadier General,
Acting Assistant Chief of Staff.