Squadron

they were a beginner groups of pilots. The 42 Canadian fighter pilots of No. 1 RCAF and 242 Squadron were able to destroy about 60 German aircrafts and had destroyed or damaged another 50 of the total 1733 German aircrafts. Late summer, the commanding officer of the No. 1 Squadron, Squadron Leader Ernest McNab, shot down a German aircraft while in the air with the British pilots. After this, his own squadron was declared operational and were taken out of training and moved to RAF Station…

355 Logistics Readiness Squadron where she was awarded the 2004 ACC Logistics Plans Professional of the year. From Davis Monthan, she moved to the 353 Operations Support Squadron, Kadena AFB where she was selected as the Superior Performer for the 353rd Special Operations Group’s 2007 Unit Compliance Inspection, along with her Training Program being formally recognized as a Benchmark for the Command. She was then reassigned to Lajes AB, 65th Logistics Readiness Squadron, where she served in a…

J. (Nobby) Fee, Fred Green and Phil Archer. The first-named was characterized as a “fine pilot and a skilful leader . . . mainly responsible for the high standard of fighting efficiency of his squadron”. He had participated in the combined operation at Dieppe and set a most inspiring example. Green had also been at Dieppe, two of his three sorties involving low level escort duties. He had destroyed, up to the time of the- award, one Me. 109E and…

dedication to mission accomplishment and performance helped them endure a lot of bias during their training and combat years. "Much of the racial progress in the U.S. Air Force in post-World War II years can be traced to the pioneer 99th Pursuit Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group" (Sandler 157). Ultimately, the Tuskegee Airmen won the battle for integration of the armed forces in 1948 by “destroying the myth of black inferiority in the skies over Africa and Europe and by defeating the best…

The Tuskegee Airmen developed a remarkable record of the least bombers lost to enemy aircrafts. With time, a myth even began to spread that the Tuskegee Airmen had never once lost a single bomber. After their conquest of Sicily, the 99th Fighter Squadron was even awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation (Stentiford…

Captain John Yossarian, the protagonist of the novel, is a bombardier in the 256th Squadron of the Army Air Forces during World War II. The squadron's task is to bomb any enemy positions in Italy and eastern France. When the novel begins, Yossarian is at the base hospital, on Pianosa, faking a liver ailment. He has learned that the hospital is a peaceful getaway and that liver ailments are difficult to diagnose. While in the hospital, Yossarian censors enlisted men's letters home; he even alters…

Marine fighter squadron to receive the Corsair was the Marine Fighter Squadron 124 (VMF 124), in September of 1942. The aircraft went through many modifications by the Marines in order to get them “combat ready” in their eyes. The VMF-124, as well as several other Marine and Navy squadrons, would train on the Corsair at their respective stateside airbases for the next several months in order to prepare…

During World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is assigned with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, close to Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his peers endure a miserable reality defined by authority and violence. The inhuman resources in the eyes of their pushy superior officers. The squadron is thrown into horrid combat situations and bombing runs where it’s necessary for the squadron to capture good aerial photographs of explosions than to destroy the targets. Their…

previously he was somewhat cowardly, he would later find the initiative to fight as his squadron was labeled as being…

slammed shut. American flight instructors refused to let other African Americans fly with their support for the next decade and a half. Two years later another African American, Eugene Bullard would travel all the way to France and join the French squadron, the Lafayette Escadrille. Bullard painted the words “Tout le sang qui coule est rouge!” which means “all blood runs red” on the side of his plane. Despite Bullards experience, and the United States need for pilots, the U.S. still refused to…