Bandholtz commanded a federal military force of 2,106 troops. To supplement this federal force Governor Morgan directed on September 3 that all "state and county officers . . . deputies, assistants, and other subordinates" cooperate with and obey General Bandholtz and his subordinates.40

While orders went out to the infantry regiments, General Harbord directed the Chief of the Army's Air Service, General Charles T. Menoher, to have General Mitchell send twenty-one aircraft of the Eighty-eighth Aero Squadron, commanded by Major Davenport Johnson, to Kanawha Field. In light of General Mitchell's reputation as a zealous booster of air power and his proclivity to "steal the show," the War Department ordered him to relinquish command of the squadron to Bandholtz and by no means accompany that unit to West Virginia.41

On September1, DeHavilland DH-4B bombers, each equipped with front- and rear-mounted machine guns and carrying tear gas and fragmentation bombs, began the three hundred and twenty mile flight from Langley Field to Charleston. After spending the night at Roanoke, Virginia, the planes crossed over the Appalachians and by late afternoon, eleven had landed at Kanawha Field. Of the twenty-one planes requested, only seventeen were in proper condition and managed to take off from Langley Field. Two planes experienced mechanical difficulties at Roanoke and one crashed there on take-off. Another bomber experienced engine difficulty over West Virginia and crash-landed near Beckley, while two others became lost in dense fog and ended up landing in Mooresburg, Tennessee. Four additional aircraft, twin-engine "box-like Martin bombers," from Aberdeen, Maryland, were also ordered to