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from Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona.* This cost analysis was to be submitted to the Deputy Director, General C. P. Cabell, through Barnes's office -- an indication of the multiplicity of managerial levels superimposed on WH/4. Barnes's memorandum also indicated that during the meeting in General Cabell's office on 27 July 1960, it was planned that four pilot trainers, Filipino maintenance personnel, and fly-away kits also would be brought in from the Far East; and a request was going to be forwarded to 1 lin an attempt to determine whether the SALA aircraft maintenance organization in that country had B-26 mechanics or would be able to obtain B-26 mechanics on short notice. 41/** * Among others who were involved in ascertaining the availability of B-26's, a cable from ~Guatemala reported that the Chief of the US Air Mis~ to Guatemala, a Col. James Harvey, had informed~ that there were "12 to 16 B-26's in very gooer---con- dition in Tuscon." 40a/ ** A fly-away kit is an aircraft maintenance kit that is designed to provide minimum maintenance parts and equipment for an aircraft when it is operating away from its home base. The kit is normally designed for each type of aircraft by the operator of that partic- ular aircraft and is not a standard set by the technical manuals of the manufacturer of the given aircraft. - 33 -