ADDRESS REPLY TO COMMANDING GENERAL AIR SERVICE COMMAND ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON, D.C. ARMY AIR FORCES November 28, 1942 Mr. Marvin H. McIntyre, The White House, Washington, D.C. Dear Mac: I am attaching a summary of a somewhat lengthy report which has been prepared in regard to "Supply Routes to China". There are now over 70,000 tons of supplies of all kinds in Karachi, and the tonnage is increasing rather than decreasing owing to the transportation restrictions between India and China. China is more in need of supplies than any one of our allies, and I believe it is possible to increase the delivery of supplies to China with very little delay and by the use of equipment and labor now available. I have talked this over with my Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Clements McMullen, Commanding General, Overseas Division, Air Service Command; and he fully recognizes the need of the delivery of more supplies to China but his jurisdiction ends at Karachi. I have a feeling that I can contribute a great deal towards the sol- ution of the ground transportation problem by the building of roads and the maintenance and repair of the thousands of trucks which have been used on the Burma Road but are now in poor operating con- dition. It is much easier and infinitely quicker to use the supplies which are now in China, repair the trucks which are there, than to ship in new equipment from the United States. The work which I have been doing on increased supplies for Russia is finished primarily by the help of Admiral Leady, who is doing a grand job in every respect. I would like to go to China as my ex- perience has equipped me for such a job and I want you to take this up with the President. Faithfully yours, /s/ Tom THOMAS D. CAMPBELL, Colonel, Air Corps, Overseas Division, Air Service Command. 1 Incls. - Summary "Supply Routes to China". |