1.William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1990, pp 809-810.
2. Martin Sicker, The Bear and the Lion: Soviet Imperialism and Iran, New York, Praeger Publishers, 1988, pp. 44-45.
3. United States Department of State, Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers, 1940, p 644.
4.Ibid, pp. 646-647.
5. “Curtiss XP-46,” Virtual Aircraft Museum, in: http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/curtiss_p-46.php (accessed December 2, 2010).
6. American officials knew this to be the case and equated delivering the aircraft desired by Reza Shah with giving the Soviet Union a gift in the event of an invasion. See: United States Department of State, Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers, Ibid, p 656.
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang or David Mondey, The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II, New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1996, pp 196-204.
8. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1940v03/pg_642.
9. American officials knew this to be the case and equated delivering the aircraft desired by Reza Shah with giving the Soviet Union a gift in the event of an invasion. See: United States Department of State, Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers, Ibid, p 657.
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane
11.Winston Churchill, The Grand Alliance, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1950, p 477.
12. Ward, Immortal, pp. 158-159. The tenth fighter, the only assembled example, was spared when an American technician caught in the middle of the attack used it to flee to Iraq.
13. United States Department of State, Foreign relations of the United States diplomatic papers, Ibid; The British Commonwealth; the Near East and Africa, Volume III, Washington, DC, GPO, 1941, pp. 355-358. In:http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS.FRUS1941v03