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    From Archimedes Plutonium@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 19 23:06:12 2023
    In total during the Battle of Britain, 146 Polish pilots served with the RAF across numerous units and the two polar squadrons they accounted for more than 200 kills, but such a feat came at a cost.

    The Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain - Imperial War Museums
    
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    How good were the Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain?

    In just 42 days 303 Squadron shot down 126 German planes, becoming the most successful Fighter Command unit in the Battle of Britain. Nine of the Squadron's pilots qualified as 'aces' for shooting down 5 or more enemy planes, including Sergeant Josef
    Frantisek, a Czech flying with the Poles who scored 17 downed planes.

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    What percentage of Battle of Britain pilots were Polish?


    Nearly three-quarters of the Polish pilots served in 11 Group, and, at the height of the Battle, they constituted 10 percent of the Group's total strength. On 15 September 1940, now celebrated as 'Battle of Britain Day', one in five of the pilots in
    action was Polish.Sep 21, 2020

    Poles and Czechoslovaks in the Battle of Britain - RAF Museum
    
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    Please, Ukraine, wait for the F-16 to arrive before advancing on Russia fortifications. Your soldiers are the most valuable, and wait for the jet fighters to help. Possibly many volunteer trained pilots will come to the help and rescue.
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    Please, Ukraine, wait for the F-16 to arrive before advancing on Russia fortifications. Your soldiers are the most valuable, and wait for the jet fighters to help. Possibly many volunteer trained pilots will come to the help and rescue.

    Why a sortie of F-16 could clear out all the Russian defense lines in a week.

    AP
    Clap at good news-- Ukraine gets F-16 fighter jets, hooray// Science Council Rules Earth not petty dictators


    --- quoting BBC ---
    The US has approved the transfer to Ukraine of American-made F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands when Ukrainian pilots are fully trained to operate them.
    "This way, Ukraine can take full advantage of its new capabilities," a US state department spokesman said.
    Ukraine praised the decision it had been pushing hard for since last year.
    But it is expected to be months before Kyiv will be able to use F-16s to try to counter Russia's air superiority.
    The Dutch are thought to have about 24 operational F-16s which are scheduled to be taken out of service and replaced by more advanced war planes.
    Denmark is also planning an upgrade of its fleet of some 30 F-16s.
    The US and its allies had earlier ruled out providing F-16s to Ukraine, fearing that this would lead to further escalation with a nuclear-armed Russia.
    Russia - which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - has so far made no public comment on the issue.
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