The mission lasted from 22 July 1944 , to 11 March 1947 , and played host to both the Patrick Hurley and George Marshall diplomatic missions. The initial reports of the mission presented a positive outlook on the Chinese Communists as a potential and useful wartime ally. These reports later condemned the men who wrote them, as they fell victim to pro Chinese Nationalist factions in the American government and to McCarthyism .
- Colonel David D. Barrett (1892 - 1977), first commanding officer of Dixie.
- John S. Service (1909 - 1999), first State Department representative to arrive in Dixie.
- John P. Davies (1908 - 1999), State Department official instrumental in the creation of the mission.
- Raymond P. Ludden (1909 - 1970), State Department, detailed to Stilwell as political officer, arrived in Yan'an August 7, 1944 with second contingent of the Dixie Mission. Traveled four months behind enemy lines with small field group of six Americans and a guerrilla bodyguard to Communist Jin Cha Ji headquarters near Fouping.
- David D. Barrett, ''Dixie Mission: The United States Army Observer Group in Yenan, 1944'', Berkeley, CA: Center for Chinese Studies, U of California, 1970.
- Carolle J. Carter, Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists 1944-1947 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1997).
- John Colling, The Spirit of Yenan: A Wartime Chapter of Sino-American Friendship (Hong Kong: API Press, 1991).
- John Paton Davies, Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another (New York: W. W. Norton, 1972).
- E. J. Kahn, The China Hands: America's Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them (New York: Viking Press, 1972, 1975).
- Colonel W. J. Peterkin, Inside China 1943-1945: An Eyewitness Account of America's Mission in Yenan, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992)
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