Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

Colonel J. Hart Caughey to Colonel Marshall S. Carter

Nanking, 30 August 1946.

1419. Because a CAF liaison officer, recently returned to Shanghai from Manila, had knowledge of the temporary suspension delaying turnover of aircraft and equipment under the 8 and ⅓ group program Reurad 98799,23 General McConnell24 passed the information to General Chou,25 Commander in Chief of the Chinese Air Force, probably yesterday afternoon.

General Marshall has no objection to the proposed action in your last paragraph of reference message.

  1. Supra. ↩
  2. Brig. Gen. John P. McConnell, Commanding General, Air Division Headquarters of the Nanking Headquarters Command.↩
  3. Air Lt. Gen. Chou Chih-jou.↩