Creating Creating an airlift presented Presence the AAF a considerable challenge in 1942 : it had no units trained Education_teaching or equipped Supply for moving Motion cargo , and no airfields existed Presence in the China Burma India Theater ( CBI ) for basing the large number of transports that would be needed .

Because the AAF had no previous airlift experience as a basis for planning Arranging , it assigned Choosing commanders who had been key figures in founding Creating the ATC in 1941–1942 to build Building and direct Aiming the operation , which included Cause_to_be_included former civilians with extensive executive experience operating Being_in_operation civil air carriers .

It procured Getting most of its officers , men , and equipment from the AAF , augmented Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by British , British-Indian Army , Commonwealth forces Hostile_encounter , Burmese labor gangs and an air transport section of the Chinese National Aviation Corporation ( CNAC ) .