Park appointed a Maintenance Investigation Team in April to examine and compare methods and rates of aircraft replacement, repair, inspection and wastage in the RAF and USAAF, in order to see if the performance of the British organization could be improved. His aim, he told Leslie Holl-inghurst, head of Base Air Forces, South-East Asia (BAFSEA), was to ensure that every hundred American aircraft allotted to the RAF produced as good a flying effort as an equal number of USAAF aircraft doing the same job. He knew that the Americans had more of everything: All right, let us shout and bullyrag the
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