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jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes:
> She does cover what happened to all the supplies which were flown
> over the Himalayas to help the China fight Japan.  It ended up in
> warehouses instead of being disbursed to the Chinese Army.  This
> wasn't discovered until after the war.  China lost a lot of favor
> for doing that.

just finished Eisenhower's Cursade In Europe ... large US Army group in
Paris was selling huge amount of military supplies in train carload lots
on the black market ... so such stuff not limited to chinese
nationalists. However, Miles was carrying on winning against Japanese
with what he was getting ... so it couldn't have been everything.

other account of Stilwell in China ...  Stilwell's Command Problems,
Chapter III, The India-Based Air Effort
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-CBI-Command/USA-CBI-Command-3.html

Chinese troops were far easier to supply by air than were U.S. or
British soldiers. The individual Chinese required but three pounds of
rations a day as against the American's five pounds. He did not ask the
variety in his diet that the American demanded. The Chinese was not only
extremely careful of his possessions, in contrast to the habitually
wasteful American soldier, but Chinese units had a way of acquiring
more, and more, and still more equipment, while American units could be
trailed by what they discarded. Consequently,"once Chinese Units were
fully equipped little was ever heard from them except requests for
ammunition, rations, medical supplies and certain short-lived items of
equipment."

But the Chinese had their failings. Every Chinese unit of any size had
its liaison unit of an American officer or two and some enlisted
men. These received their own rations, mail, and supplies by airdrop
through the Chinese division G-4. Somewhere between the Chinese staff
officer and the liaison team, American mail, packages, and supplies
tended to vanish. In the classic Chinese fashion, rations and ammunition
were overordered on the grand scale. Thus in December 1943, the Chinese
38th Division's requisitions were 280 percent in excess of its strength.

Naturally, there were times when even the extraordinary carrying powers
of the Chinese could not cope with this manna raining down. Supply dumps
and less formal caches were left behind, and there was great barter with
the Burmese. When the Yunnan border was approached, pack trains began to
carry American lend-lease to the Yunnan bazaars, as in the days when the
Burma Road was hailed as "China's life line."

... snip ...

but Tuchman (also) doesn't mention Harry Dexter White ... working on
behalf of Stalin ... Stalin wanted to drag Japan into war with
US ... sent draft of demands that White was to include
in US ultimatum to Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note#Interpretations
and Japan makes decision to attack Pearl after the ultimatum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Venona_project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project

also acting as agent for Stalin, in 1943 congress appropriates $200M for
Nationalist, that White manages to divert.

Benn Stein in "The Battle of Bretton Woods" spends pages 55-58
discussing "Operation Snow".
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bretton-Woods-Relations-University-ebook/dp/B00B5ZQ72Y/

pg56/loc1065-66:

The Soviets had, according to Karpov, used White to provoke Japan to
attack the United States. The scheme even had a name: "Operation
Snow," snow referring to White.

... snip ...