Note by the Secretaries of the Combined Chiefs of Staff
Québec, 18 August 1943.
Secret
CCS 301/1
Specific Operations in the Pacific and Far East, 1943-44
At their 110th Meeting, 17 August 1943, the Combined Chiefs of Staff directed that a paragraph be drafted by the Secretaries for inclusion in paragraph 8 of CCS 301. A suggested paragraph follows:
Air Route into China
Present plans provide for the concentration of available resources, as first priority within the Assam-Burma Theater, on the building up and increasing of the air routes to China to a capacity of 10,000 tons a month by early Fall, and the development of air facilities in Assam with a view to:
- Intensifying air operations against the Japanese in Burma;
- Maintaining increased American Air Forces in China; and
- Maintaining the flow of airborne supplies to China.
H. REDMAN
J. R. DEANE
Combined Secretariat