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APPENDIX VI

HEADQUARTERS 17th COMPOSITE GROUP
OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER.

Wheeler Field, Schofield Barracks,
December 12, 1923.

SUBJECT: Report.

TO: General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of Air Service.

1. I am informed by Major George Lovell that you desire a report in reference to the difficulties encountered in operating Air Service Activities in this Department.

2. The foremost difficulty has been the matter of supplies, particularly in reference to part, etc., for airplanes, and in maintaining the number of ships in good flying condition necessary for a complete training program. This group consists

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