893.796/304: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China ( Gauss )
379. Your 443, April 21, 11 a.m. For your confidential information:
The Department has been advised by General Arnold that the air service between Calcutta and China and all cargo-type airplanes assigned to that service are under direct control of General Stilwell and may be operated in any way he sees fit and by such crews as he may select. Thirty-four such aircraft have been allotted and as of April 18 six had already been delivered to points east of Karachi. Three were then at Karachi and three more in Africa or the Near East en route. All of these planes were scheduled to have left the United States during April.