TY - JOUR

T1 - A War-Profiteer or a Strategic Lightweight?

T2 - Switzerland in American Aircraft Supply Priorities in the Emerging Cold War

AU - Wyss, Marco

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The authorization for the sale of 90 surplus P-51 Mustang fighter planes to the Government of Sweden was given […] due to the fact that these planes were needed in part to replace and furnish spare parts for 50 P-51’s sold to the Swedish Government in July 1945, […]. Therefore, the sale may properly be viewed as the completion of an earlier sale. […] In making the 1945 sale and the present authorization, the Government of the United States recognized the fact that Sweden renderedvaluable services to the United States during the war in returning American air crews forced down in that country and in other wartime services.

AB - The authorization for the sale of 90 surplus P-51 Mustang fighter planes to the Government of Sweden was given […] due to the fact that these planes were needed in part to replace and furnish spare parts for 50 P-51’s sold to the Swedish Government in July 1945, […]. Therefore, the sale may properly be viewed as the completion of an earlier sale. […] In making the 1945 sale and the present authorization, the Government of the United States recognized the fact that Sweden renderedvaluable services to the United States during the war in returning American air crews forced down in that country and in other wartime services.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 2009-2010

SP - 311

EP - 339

JO - Militärhistorisk Tidskrift

JF - Militärhistorisk Tidskrift

ER -