The purpose of this report is: 1) to record the history of the development of the Air Supply and Evacuation System on the Northern Combat Area Command front during the Burma campaign, the obstacles met, how they were overcome, and the lessons learned therefrom; 2) to set forth in detail the operational and administrative procedures employed, together with their interrelationships, in the ordering, packing and delivery of various classes of supply from initiation of the request by combat units to delivery by air to those units; and 3) to serve as a contribution, for what it may be worth, to the further development of standing operating procedures in air supply, and as a guide to the implementation of air supply program in other theaters of operation, where comparable conditions obtain. Introductory: authority, purpose, scope, sources, credits. Part I: brief statement of the problem. Part II: summary of favorable and unfavorable factors. Part III: history of growth and development. Part IV: evacuation of wounded and medical supply by air. Part V: SOP, methods and techniques. Part VI: miscellaneous data on tonnages delivered, sorties flown, troops served. Part VII: notes on air supply costs. Maps and illustrations include an AAF aeronautical chart, world pilotage chart index/Lake Erh, Maingkwan, and Burma (Upper Chindwin and Myitkyina districts and tribal area).

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