have done a lot better in Java. We attacked with 3 A-24' s. It did not worry 
 
us that the Japs had air superiority. We just had to catch them in the air. 
 
The morale of the men has been remarkable all the way through. Everybody over 
 
there has the idea everyone over here is sending all they can.
 
Major Fisher: Around 5,000 Air Force troops were on Bataan. Half of the 
 
Headquarters squadrons and the base squadrons, all at Bataan.
 
Col. Thomas: Did you go to Corregidor?
 
Major Fisher: No.
 
Gen. Moses: Are the planes able to get up there at all? (On Bataan)
 
Major Fisher: 12 P-40's were left with General MacArthur. They used P-40's 
 
and bombs in place of belly tanks on Bataan. One of the pursuit boys has 
 
worked out a technique of coming in at a 45 degree glide, with his engine throt-
 
tled, using his gun sight and doing a very accurate bombing job. Several 
 
fields on Bataan, Cabanatuan, and a small field at Marivales, could have 
 
P-40's worked on them.
 
Gen. Moses: Can they hide planes in where they cannot be found?
 
Major Fisher: We had 25 pursuit planes on Clark Field. A large group of 
 
trees concealed these P-40's in the horseshoe of trees and they were never 
 
found by the Japanese. They were not damaged at all in the 2-week period.
 
Col. Borum: Did you have hard-surface runways.
 
Major Fisher: Some at Java. Most of the time, though, we operated off of turf.
 
Col. Borum: B-17' s also?
 
Major Fisher: Yes, sir.
 
Gen Moses: Do you have aviation engineers for runways?
 
Major Fisher: Aviation engineers build air fields faster than you can think.  
 
They build them in a week.