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B-26 wings outside of the pylon tanks -- might be undertaken almost immediately. Whether it was in the supply line or whether it was simply an oversight, the question of paint for the aircraft at JMTIDE, seemed to be serious. As late as 14 April, TIDE was appealing to Eglin for all colors of oil paint, even a partial ship~nt, and making a specific request for red, white, blue, and silver lacquer, masking tape, and paint brushes for special shipment via Southern Air Transport C-46 on a flight to TIDE. 93/ Billy Campbell shed some light on the problem of painting the B-26 aircraft when, in response to a question if the planning couldn't have been a little better, he noted as follows: You are getting into a problem area here ..• we had three different areas working on this one. The "main fleet of B-26's was sitting at Eglin. The ones that we had borrowed had come in through Kelty. The ones that we took down .•. we started off in Guatemala with two National Guard airplanes that we had borrowed from the Air Guard, Andrews APB. So they then picked up six B-26's out of Kelly which had been flown in and cleaned up -- no markings. We flew those down to Retalhuleu. Then we began to get other airplanes in at Field 3, where we had the capability of - 161 -