But a fundamental question remains: What good end was served by the emergency delivery of 650,000 tons of this and that into China? Certainly little went directly to the aid of the Chinese people and relatively little to the Chinese armies, though it can be urged that the regime of Chiang Kai-shek would have collapsed without the support of General Chennault's command and that Chennault's men were wholly dependent upon the Hump lift.
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Total (Mar. to Dec.) (Jan. to Aug.) Total aid to British Commonwealth 1,082 4,757 9,376 10,766 4,437 30,073 Aid to Russia 20 1,376 2,436? 4,074 2,764 10,670 Aid to other countries 2,872 Total lend-lease aid 43,615