chaz #68, sabrejet #69. These lists are selective, quantities inconsistent with inventory identified in Type literature by Serial Number. Where in FY54 are France’s Bearcats, Invaders, Corsairs, in FY57 Privateers; why do FY57 Hunters rise from 312, 30/9/56 to 537 30/3/57, and drop to 0 30/6/57? What France had from MSP in FY57 was not 218 MD452 but 223 MD454 Mystere IVA, and they did not drop to 0 in 9/57.

UK inventory: #68: we had 52 P2V which matches 51 in FY53 (we lost some); we had 84, not 56 B-29 (+3 ELINTs, call them the 3 RB-29). 430, not 421 F-86E set off for RAF, but some were lost en route: but 370 of the airframes were funded under the UK/Canada Mutual Defence Agreement (RT Wakelam, Cold War Fighters, UBCP, 2012, P.90); only their GE engines were funded by MSP, so why are they in this list at all? Where in FY53 are the 100 TBM-3C/E, 50 AD-4W, 20 Hiller H.T.1, 25 HRS-2/HO4S-1 Whirlwind, 59 HO3S-1 Dragonfly?

Pres.Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, 6/10/49, France being early (?first*) beneficiary; UK/US MDA was signed 27/1/50 (70 of the B-29s being first up). Most assets were transferred from extant DoD inventory. MDAP was superseded by 10/10/51 Mutual Support Act, which also subsumed 3/4/48 European Cooperation Act (Marshall Aid), which was intended to rebuild Allies’ economies: so MSP included bespoke-new build and Offshore Procurement. So where in #69 FY57 is the MSP part-funding of….well, almost everything, except only Vulcan/Victor: Gannet, Seamew, Sea Hawk, Shackleton, Javelin…: I have 367 Hunter F.4/RAF and 31 RDan.AF? Other MSP Offshore end-items included 117 Aquilon (Sea Venom), new Meteor N.F.11 to RDanAF/France(20/25), ex-RAF examples to RBAF/France(24/16).

MDAP/MSP, which was extended far and wide to US Allies (Noratlas, Mistral, F-86K…) deserves its equivalent of the 3 books I have on Lend/Lease: few aircraft types’ information is constant across all 3, so a patient man is awaited.

(*amended 8/12/15: http://www.nato.int/archives/1st5years/chapters/3.htm says 1st. deliveries were Hellcats onto FN Dixmude in US, 8/3/50).

…hence my comments regarding these lists in Post 69. Great deal of in-depth stuff at TNA however.