was about 500.
 
Col. Borum: Do you use Drums with hand pumps, motorized pumps, or what?
 
Major Fisher: They are extremely valuable. The most valuable piece of equip-
 
ment is motor driven gasoline refueling equipment. The one with a washing 
 
machine engine. That little engine is wonderful. We used the hand pumps for 
 
refueling the drums.
 
Col. Thomas: How about portable lighting system?
 
Major Fisher: We have to operate at night right now. It has been used at 
 
Del Monte and other fields. It seems to be all right.
 
Major Fisher: Night lighting. Darwin had their own. No. 10 cans full of 
 
kerosene and a stick rope in it were used.
 
Col. Blair: If you had pursuit, they would not be doing so much day flying? 
 
Major Fisher: If we had P-47's we could take over. They should go down to 
 
Australia.
 
Col. Thomas: What about fuel stores down there?
 
Major Fisher: It is in barrels dispersed around the field. That way you don't 
 
lose so much. They should be painted green, brown or something instead of 
 
red as they are now.
 
Major Fisher: On the bases we are operating from the Bob trucks. The Govern-
 
ment bought a lot of trucks in Java.
 
Col. Borum: What about light maintenance equipment?
 
Major Fisher: One P-40 engine was changed in the field at Java.
 
Col. Borum: Is the mobile depot group in the field?
 
Col. Thomas: The mobile depot group is supposed to take care of wrecks, etc. 
 
          Did you ever recover any of these crashes?
 
Major Fisher: We did not have time. The Dutch fished a couple out of the 
 
water. You can' t do anything when you are operating the way we were.
 
Col. Hoag: Are destructors being used on bombsights?
 
                    - 11 -