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No. 303 Squadron RAF, also known as the 303rd "Tadeusz Kościuszko Warsaw" Fighter Squadron, [a] was one of two Polish squadrons that fought during the Battle of Britain along with No. 302 Squadron, of 16 total Polish squadrons during the Second World War.
The 303rd Bombardment Group was activated in February 1942 as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber group at Pendleton Field, Oregon, and assigned the 358th, 359th, and 360th Bombardment Squadrons and the 31st Reconnaissance Squadron.
The 303rd Fighter Squadron is assigned to the 442d Operations Group at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and flies the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft conducting close air support missions. The squadron was first activated during World War II.
303 Squadron or 303rd Squadron may refer to: . No. 303 Squadron RAF; 303 Squadron RNLAF; 303d Fighter Squadron (World War II), United States Air Forces 303d Troop Carrier Squadron, a World War II United States Air Forces unit
Jack W. Mathis was born on September 25, 1921, in San Angelo, Texas, and grew up in nearby Sterling City.He enlisted in the Army on June 12, 1940, and served in an artillery unit at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, until he learned that his brother Mark had enlisted in the then-U.S. Army Air Corps.
The 303 Squadron honour badge had "303" added to the original Kościuszko Squadron emblem. Polish 7th Air Escadrille (Polish: 7. Eskadra Lotnicza), better known as the Kościuszko Squadron, was one of the units of the Polish Air Force during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. Formed in late 1918, it was re-formed in late 1919 from US volunteers.
The 303rd Air Refueling Squadron was activated in April 1951 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona [10] and assigned to the 303rd Bombardment Group, but attached to the 303rd Bombardment Wing. [ 11 ] it was nominally a KB-29 Superfortress unit, but never became operational and was inactivated seven months later.
The plane flew 112 combat missions with the 359th Bombardment Squadron of the 303rd Bombardment Group. On 23 January 1944, she was assigned to the crew of 1st Lt. Vern L. Moncur, of Rupert, Idaho, and Bountiful, Utah, which had six previous missions in other bombers. After that crew completed her tour on April 10, she was used as a "new crew ...