 Returning to China, he purchased several surplus military aircraft and created the Civil Air Transport (later known as Air America).These aircraft facilitated aid to Nationalist China during the struggle against Chinese Communists in the late 1940s, and were later used in supply missions to French forces in Indochina and the Kuomintang occupation of northern Burma throughout the mid- and late 1950s, providing support for the Thai police force.This same force supplied the intelligence community and others during the Vietnam War.