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the Chief of Air Service. The commander of the depot understands his business but is very shorthanded. Generally speaking, there are about three months' supplies for the upkeep of the air units now on duty in the Hawaiian Department with the exception of the Thomas-Morse Pursuit ships, the Martin bombers, and the new steel fuselage DH's. The supplies for these ships are supposed to be on the way but are in a very scattered condition. There is no inspection system, either, for materiel coming in or materiel going out. There is no direct liaison with the Ordnance Department anywhere in the Air Organization. The liaison must be very intimate regarding all Ordnance materials, otherwise the results will suffer greatly. An Ordnance officer should be on duty on the staff of the commander of the air force.

2. The commander of the Supply Depot has under his jurisdiction the war reserve supplies at Wheeler Field which consist of sixty-four DH airplanes, nineteen field lighting sets, and other miscellaneous tools and equipment, and the war reserve supplies at Luke Field which consists of twenty-four DH airplanes and miscellaneous equipment. Probably not more than from thirty to fifty per cent of these DH airplanes could be made serviceable. 

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