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~CRET four. or five hour flight, then keep him on target for four hours with no secure base to return to. 7. Colonel Egan finally understood the problem which as we left them was, they will present, in writing to DPD, the targets, time over them desired, and the operating base to strike from. Without these two problems resolved we can't say how many aircraft will be needed. 8. We could get B-26's back from the Far East to add to the 10 we now have but the pilot problem hasn't ever been resolved as yet. Imler again said that he had biographical data on 23, but as yet no firm answer has come back to DPD on the 15 we originally requested. 9. The operations plan will there- fore not be written until the specific criteria of the PM operations is for- warded. These criteria will outline general air requirements in support of all PM concepts. 41a/* Word of the switch to the B-26's in lieu of the AD-S's was immediately sent to Florida ~ith the in- structions that there should be a delay in the attempts to recruit aircraft maintenance personnel because of * The WH/4 representatives were Col. Frank Egan, Col. John F. Mallard, Cmdr. John Imler. The memo is not specified as an MR, and it is unsigned and undated; but it is pres·umed to refer to a meeting at the end of July or very.early in August 1960. The author probably was either stanley Beerli or George Gaines, and Sidney Stembridge also was in attendance for DPD. - 35 -