MAF 400.314 LONDON, ENGLAND EXHIBIT 4 JOINT AMERICAN MILITARY ADVISORY GROUP-EUROPE, Memorandum for: Mr. Bonner, Chairman, Subcommittee of House of Representatives Committee on Expenditures. Subject: Information concerning fiscal year 1951 Mutual Security Program Appropriations. 1. During the briefing for your subcommittee conducted in the conference room of the Navy Building, 7 North Audley Street, London, on the morning of Wednesday, November 28, you asked that answers to the following questions, which were not available during the briefing, be furnished to you in writing: (a) What was the amount appropriated for Mutual Aid to NATO for the fiscal year 1951? (b) What portion of the appropriated funds had been expended and what was the balance remaining? (c) What amount had been spent for "overhead"? 2. The only precise information available to this Group on the matters to which your first two questions relate appears in reports prepared and issued in the past by the Office of the Comptroller, Internal Security Affairs, Department of State. Accordingly, the following statistics, extracted from the latest of such reports received by this Group (Status Report, Mutual Defense Assistance, Appropriations by Service and Category, Fiscal Year 1951 Appropriations, as of August 1951) are furnished in response to those questions: (a) The amount appropriated for Mutual Aid to NATO for the fiscal year 1951 was $4,413,710.893. (b) The amount of appropriated funds which had been expended as of August 31, 1951 was: $302,620,180.52 and the balance remaining was: $4,111,090.712 (it should be noted, however, that $3,648,515,079 of this sum has been obligated and is no longer available). 3. With regard to your third question, this group has been unable to determine with accuracy what portion of the appropriated funds could properly be said to have been allocated to "overhead" and is, therefore, unable to furnish you with a figure representing such amount. However, the following amounts are shown in the report as having been allocated to categories other than Matériel, Training, and Additional Mail Prod. 4. In view of the fact that the figures given in paragraph 2, above, are no longer current, and since this Group does not have available the information necessary accurately to answer your query concerning "overhead" funds, it is suggested that your Committee obtain in Washington more complete and current information on this entire subject. It is believed that the Director, Office of Military Assistance, Office of the Secretary of Defense, would be able to give proper attention to such an inquiry. A. FRANKLIN KIBLER, Major General, United States Army, Director. Hon. HERBERT C. BONNER, LONDON, ENGLAND EXHIBIT 5 HEADQUARTERS, THIRD AIR FORCE, APO 125, CARE OF POSTMASTER, NEW YORK, N. Y., Chairman, Subcommittee of the House of Representatives House Office Building, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. BONNER: Forwarded herewith for your information, and in accordance with your verbal request, are photostatic copies of unclassified charts which were exhibited to your Committee during its recent visit to the United Kingdom. Sincerely, B. L. RIGGS, 7 Incls.: 1. Orgn. JCS Chart 2. Log. Responsibilities Cht 3. Supply in UK Chart 4. Pipeline Time fr ZI on Routine Reqn Chart 5. Metal Salvage Chart 6. 3AF Salv Stats Chart 7. Proc in the UK for the 3AF Chart SUPPLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1. Under the provisions of the Joint Army-Air Force agreement of 10 January 1950 as implemented by Air Force regulation 67-59, dated 15 March 1951, the supply responsibility for the United Kingdom rests with the Air Force. Therefore, when we speak of supply in the United Kingdom, we are speaking of an Air Force operated and controlled supply system. This fact has influenced the formation of what we have and is influencing that for which we are planning. 2. Supplies and equipment entering our supply system come from several sources. This schematic drawing indicates the sources of property going into stock at the base depot located at Burtonwood-Sealand. All supplies flow into the base depot in the manner depicted here except petroleum products, solid fuels, and ammunition. The excepted items will be discussed later. 3. The bulk of the supplies and equipment for the United Kingdom are requisitioned from, and subsequently received from, the Middletown Air Matériel Area Depot, Pa. These supplies include all Air Force-procured items and Army-procured items for which the Air Force has assumed bulk storage and depot maintenance responsibility. These Army-procured items have been integrated into the Air Force system by means of the S-00 cross-reference indexes and have lost their technical service identity as far as our UK supply system is concerned. 4. We also requisition on the overseas supply division at the New York Port of Embarkation. From this source we obtain all Army-purchased property except that appearing in the S-00 cross-reference indexes which, as mentioned earlier, come from Middletown. 5. As is the case with all depots, the United Kingdom base depot obtains some property to meet theater obligations by means of local purchase and local manufacture. The extent of local purchase and manufacturing will be discussed a little later. 6. Another source for required property utilized by our base depot is the air depot located at Erding, Germany. By a bilateral agreement each of these depots issues to the other when a need arises. 7. These sources that have been mentioned are common supplies and are in no way peculiar to the supply operation of the Third Air Force. Other depots in other theaters use the same sources and for that reason they have not been discussed at any great length. For a complete understanding of the logistics pic |