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Q. Your remark about concentration interested me. Suppose you were suddenly called on to send what available force there was here and at Long Island up into northern New York or Vermont prepared for immediate service or an emergency. The flight up there would be simple, but how about the transfer and establishment up there of the necessary equipment for maintenance, communications, protection, security, and all that sort of thing. Just as a rough estimate how long would it take you to be actually in business and able to support your operations on the Canadian border?
A. You could carry with your units themselves a sufficient amount of ammunition, small tools, and things of that nature to keep going, provided you could buy your fuel there. When we moved the squadron from Lingley to Charlestown during the strike, the squadron kept operating until the arrival of the man by train. It doesn't require anything except your ammunition.
Q. No rail transport or truck.
A. I am speaking of the interval. You would go ahead and transfer your unit, enlisted personnel, etc., by train, but in the meantime your squadron would operate. It would be operating all the time pending the arrival of the unit. Certain machines would carry a certain number of mechanics. We transported a large amount of ammunition and bombs by airplane to Charleston. That was the way we sent them down. We got practically all our material that came from Dayton last summer that way. There was no money for