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 �This Page Declassified lAW EO12958 Lgtsiclito Dgrig t?½ War Yecs her 1945; hence the 1945 appropriation cov- ered only the number to be produced in the first six months of 1946). In additmn to the $12,610,-00,000 directly allocated to the AAF, it was to receive more than $8,000,000- 000 from appropriations earned under other heads. The AAF would actually receive more than 20,000,000,000--more than 40 per cent of the $49,500,000,000 granted to the nnlitary establishment by the Military Ap- propriations Act, 1945. ø By the time the final estimates for fiscal year 1946 were to be made, the end of the war in Europe seemed imminent and the requirements for the AAF were lowered from an original estimate of 17.4 billions to 5.9 billions. This great decrease in AF budgetary requirements resulted in major part from a 43,792 reduction in the number of planes required. As finally presented to Congress, the AAF program for fiscal year 1946 called for expenditures of $5,779,798,- 185. There were funds available from pre- vious appropriations to finance this pro- gram, witit $6,500,000 to spare for other War Department reqmrements. Conse- quently the Military Appropriation Act, 1946, approved 3 July 1945, included only a token appropriation of $100 for the AAF. Out of its funds on hand, the AAF was to spend only $2,288,662,500 (minus $16,500,- 000 for gliders) for planes, spare engines, and parts. Only 10,550 planes were to be procured. 2 Similarly the Military Appropriation Act included only a token appropriahon of $100 in new funds for the purpose of expechting production. There was a promsion for the reappropriation of $86,779,900 m unex- pended funds to take care of this item. AI- though none of this amount was spechfically allotted to the AAF, a ]argo portion of t was pobably used by the air arm.  From !1 June 1938 to 3 July 1945, during the prewar expansion program and the war years, Congress had treated the AAF very generously. It had appropriated a total of $62059,20,342 m cash and $1,998,V76,474 in contract obligations for the AAF; and had provided that $61,464,760,331 of the cash should go for planes, spare engines, and spare parts, prowding for the procure- ment of 21,730 planes. These direct ap- prop. nations also had provided hundreds of mllons for research and development ($556,568,438), and for the expediting of production.  Bi!hons more had been made available for the  by appropriations un- der other headings.* The research and development program of the AF recetved greatly increased allo- cations during the war years. Of the funds appropriated for the Air Corps (AAF) m the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942, approved 1 De- cember 1941, $34,103,700 was allocated for research and development. This brought the total of research and development funds allocated to the AAF under appropriations made in 1941 up to $7,813,00. In 1942 the sum of $112,86,000 was allocated to the AAF for research and development pur- poses; in 1943 the allocation fell slightly to $99,351,065. In 1944 the proposed alloca- tion for research and development was 049,600, but it seems that $154,000,000 was actually spent for such purposes. Fnally, in 1945, a larger allocation than any bath- erto made available to the AAF for research and development was included in AAF ap- propnationsthe sum of $146,228,471. In additmn to the increase m funds allo- cated directly to the AAF for research and development, there was also an increase in the appropmations made by Congress for the NAOA which did basic aeronautheal re- search for the AAF. in 1941 NACA appro- pnatmns for research and development rose to 827,470,400 (as compared to $17,600,000 in 1940), fell shghtly to $22,282,736 in 1942, and reached a peak of $42,235,215 in 1943. Very substantial sums were also appropri- ated for the work of the NACA in the fol- lowing two years: $30,639,830 in 1944 and $36,321,893 in 19457t Another feature of the appropriation measures of the war years worthy of men- tion in connection with AAF activities was of Army aviation for the fice! 'eare 1941-II$ amoUnin $61,809,66,214 This repreen$ letween otto-third and cnc- fourth of the total stppoprlatins of ipprcximately $19,000,00,000 made for the War Departtheft dttrin the period The 2reat enms Indirectly appropriated for Army darien added eYeral moe billions c the Army iti ariel's of the toal approprtetect for military purposes duin8 the II, p 297, Am* Service Forces, Annz! :Rcpor for the THIS PAGE Declassified lAW EO12958
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