Sergeant John D. King of Fort Worth. Sergeant Harry C. Engle of Chicago. It was the kind of patching they used on fabric planes before they made them of metal. Moreover it's an example of what rnechanically adept American bovs are doing to keep planes flying all over the world. If vital supplies go down on sunken ships or are delayed by difficult terrain and bad weather, then something else will have to do until the supplies arrive.
Nothing is called impossible until it's been tried and proven so.
Seldom, if ever, has more been done by an air force group with less equipment than by the B-26 outfit about whom this story is told. Because of the nature of the campaign, we began operating in the African theatre long before we expected to start. Much of our tools and equipment were still in England, and replacements were hard to get in Africa then. Things are well organized here now, and most new groups coming over are pretty well equipped when they land. But, of course, there is still plenty of chance to improvise, and it will never be like aircraft maintenance in the United States.