Our squadrons consisted of 25 pilots and a lot of the guys I flew with in the States were in the other squadrons, but we didn't get together much.
A group consisted of three squadrons and I still know all the fellows in the other squadrons although we didn't fly together.
This was the only way we could identify the squadrons that we might get mixed up with over Germany.
We saw pilots we had gone through training with and a few we knew from other squadronsin England.
When we flew missions, our squadron flew four flights of four planes in each flight and the other two squadrons the same.
Good leaders made all the difference, and the squadrons had much better combat records than we did because of this.
Each field had three squadrons at different locations around the field.
Those squadrons with good records were sent to the areas where most of the fighting was taking place.
We found out then that from the three squadrons from our field there were eight pilots missing.
We cut off two sections for the other two squadrons and some for the enlisted men and still had enough to last a week.
A lot of the othersquadrons were getting P-47s and P-38s so we considered ourselves lucky to be getting the planes we wanted most.
The leading squadrons detailed for the work, as a rule with Colonel Benson at their head, would gallop for the farmhouse or laager and be right among the Boers before they were properly awake.
About this date a brilliant little piece of work was performed by Major Gogarty and four squadrons of the South African Light Horse.
The pursuit of Malan to the east now occupied the column under Major Wormald and two squadrons of the 9th Lancers.
Brigade Field Hospital, and 2nd Brigade Bearer Company, was now strengthened by four squadrons of regular cavalry.
All the troops Colonel Meyrick had with him were Colonel Lawson and four brokensquadrons of the 10th.
He had entered the defile with the cavalry; but from the time our first squadrons were routed I had seen nothing of him.
Two Colombian squadrons were in front of us, while Miller was still further ahead and bearing to the left.
They could barely hold their own against the reassembled squadrons from the defile, and our arrival had turned the scale.
The troops rose, and mounted officers dashed about, carrying orders to different squadrons and battalions.
During the battle the Oleg and Aurora were within range of our third and fourth squadrons and were on fire.
Thus within a single week both squadrons of Russia's navy in the Far East suffered signal and overwhelming disaster with the effect of immediately and palpably relieving the difficulties of the campaign for the invasion of Manchuria.
Here, on March 28th, they found six squadrons of Cossacks belonging to General Mishtchenko's Brigade, posted on an adjacent hill, prepared to dispute the forward movement.
The ultimate task of the fleet was to regain mastery of the sea from Japan, in undisputed possession by reason of having destroyed the Russian Pacific squadrons at Port Arthur and Vladivostok.
Both squadrons proceeded very slowly, and the reports from time to time regarding their whereabouts were of the most puzzling character.
Later on, I believe, some of the German reiters became so venturesome that several squadrons exposed themselves to the fire of the big guns in the fort at Skip's Corner, and suffered pretty severely for their temerity.
They had been outnumbered by the squadrons of independent cavalry operating in front of the Germans, and had, alas!
At Tiptree Heath there was a sharp cavalry engagement between our red Lancers and several squadrons of a sky-blue hussar regiment.
At one o'clock the firing commenced on both sides; the head of the English line had borne down, and the van of my squadron had done the same, so that the two squadrons fought for some time while running before the wind.
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Next morning both sent out about three hundred cavalry and light infantry to reconnoitre, among which Flamininus also sent twosquadrons of Aetolians, because they were acquainted with the country.
An American force hastened to the Mediterranean, and our squadrons were expected to seize all the rovers putting out, as well as intercept all prizes on their way to the enemy's ports.
Fresh squadrons continued to arrive, as if the news of the coming ship had spread alarm through the camp, attracting all the troops to the port.
They were squadronsof Numidians and Mauritanians, waving their lances and uttering war cries as when charging in battle.
The Emperor now ordered his four reservesquadrons to charge the fresh brigade of English cavalry but their attack met with no success.
Meanwhile the activity in France continued unabated, and scarcely a day passed without some trifling engagement, brought on by the rigorous pursuit of the squadrons of the French fleet, as they advanced to Boulogne.
As the signal blast for advancing was sounded, the eager squadrons that had been smelling the smoke of battle for hours with impatience, rushed onward to glory or to death.
The appearance of Marshal Bessieres, who arrived at the head of some squadrons of grenadiers of the Guard, sufficed to stay the disorder and put the Cossacks to flight.
Napoleon sent no cavalry in pursuit, though he had forty squadrons who might have cut them to pieces.
In April and May 1798 the various squadrons of the French fleet were assembled at Toulon, and everything was soon in readiness.
Against these compact battalions, armed with spears eighteen feet long, the squadrons of Burgundy rode in vain.
The letter was in English, accompanied by a bad translation, in which the word for "squadron of ships," was rendered by the Russian term for squadrons of horse.
A brisk north wind arose, and blowing three days on without a pause, drove blocks and bergs of ice from the Polar Ocean down into the gut, forcing the squadrons to fall back, and closing up every means of escape into the open sea.
See, as the hurricane Hurtles in wrath Squadrons of clouds amain Back from its path!
They consisted of four battaillons of foot, and all well armed with fusils and pitchforks, and three squadrons of horse.
There are also here and there a laird or two, who, though they shrug their shoulders, profess no great shame in their fathers having served in the persecuting squadrons of Earlshall and Claverhouse.
A sharp, stern bugle-call summoned the Blues back into the road, where they formed up and trotted slowly away before fresh squadronscould come up from the camp.
So the long line rolled in until three squadrons of horse and four small cannon, with the blue-coated Dutch cannoniers as stiff as their own ramrods, brought up the rear.
The war was now drawing to a close; a day before the Allied squadrons started for Durazzo Bulgaria surrendered; about two weeks after the attack Austria had given up the ghost.
New fighter and bomber squadrons from both the 1st and 2d Wings sent their flight echelons forward on a regular basis.
In their battles to turn back the attacking planes, the carrier fighter squadrons lost 21 Wildcats on 7-8 August.
His air support would continue to be Marine-dominated as General Geiger, now located on Espiritu Santo with 1st Wing headquarters, fed his squadrons forward to maintain the offensive.
The Army added three fighter squadrons and a medium bomber squadron of B-26s.
MAG-11 squadrons moved forward from New Caledonia to Espiritu Santo to be closer to the battle scene; the flight echelons now could operate forward to Guadalcanal and with relative ease.
Placing three picked squadrons in front, the young general made a furious assault upon the Catholic cavalry, which had again rallied and was drawn up very close to the musketeers.
They were under the special supervision of the admiral, who marshalled their squadrons and directed their charging, although mounted on a hackney himself, and not intending to participate in the action.
The advancing squadrons faltered, wheeled back upon the companies following them, and the whole mass of the republican cavalry broke into wild and disorderly retreat.
Soon after eight o'clock Count Lewis began to cross with eight squadrons of cavalry, and partly swimming, partly wading, effected the passage in safety.
These eight squadrons of horse accordingly shifted their position, and were now placed close to the edge of the sea, on the left flank of the vanguard, which Vere had drawn up across the beach and in the downs.
His squadrons in iron corslet and morion, and armed with lances, carbines, and sabres, stretched across from the water to the downs.
The mutinous Spanish and Italian cavalry, combined with a few choice squadrons of Walloon and German horse, were placed in front and on the flanks.
Although he had but fifty men with him he dismounted them behind a ridge, and opened fire on the advancing enemy, and when hard pushed charged some squadrons of cavalry, killing ten men and capturing five horses.
The Egyptian force turned out in great strength, comprising seventeen battalions of infantry, several squadrons of cavalry, thirty guns, and some thousands of Bedouins.
Two squadrons would, in the opinion of all the authorities in the Soudan, have sufficed to open the road and to save Berber, which was the key of the Soudan, and without the retention of which evacuation was hopeless.
These squadrons were charged by the enemy in considerable strength, and retired with loss on the square formed by the Guards at the foot of the Dihilibat Hill.
The Egyptian squadrons led the charge, followed by the British Hussars, and, dashing into the midst of such of the enemy as were collected, completed the rout.
The mounted troops consisted of eight squadrons of Egyptian cavalry, with Horse Artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Broadwood.
Accordingly the 1st and 2nd Egyptian battalions, a mule battery, and two squadrons of cavalry were despatched in hot haste to the front.
There were also several batteries of artillery and two squadrons of cavalry.
Colonel Ewart ordered two squadrons to dismount and fire volleys.
Four squadronscomposed a regiment, two regiments a brigade, two brigades a division.
Even when the armies have already marched away, squadrons of horse can, in thickly populated districts, with a little preparation, be successfully repulsed by levies.
It was a desperate struggle of six and one-half battalions, five squadrons and twelve guns, against twenty-one battalions, eighty guns and a greatly superior force of cavalry.
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