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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 427252, member: 301&quot;]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._54_Squadron_RAF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._54_Squadron_RAF" rel="nofollow">No. 54 Squadron</a></p><p><br /></p><p>5 May 1916 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bromwich_Aerodrome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bromwich_Aerodrome" rel="nofollow">Castle Bromwich</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Flying_Corps_squadrons#cite_note-56" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Flying_Corps_squadrons#cite_note-56" rel="nofollow">[56]</a> To the RAF on 1 April 1918, based at Conteville, France</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 17</b> was a &quot;hunting group&quot; (i.e., fighter squadron) of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftstreitkr%C3%A4fte" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftstreitkr%C3%A4fte" rel="nofollow">Luftstreitkräfte</a></i>, the air arm of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_German_Army" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_German_Army" rel="nofollow">Imperial German Army</a> during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" rel="nofollow">World War I</a>. As one of the original German fighter squadrons, the unit would score 101 aerial victories<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdstaffel_17#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFranksBaileyGuest199336-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdstaffel_17#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFranksBaileyGuest199336-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> (including fourteen wins over enemy observation balloons) during the war, with another 22 of the squadron&#039;s claims going unconfirmed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdstaffel_17#cite_note-theaerodrome1-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdstaffel_17#cite_note-theaerodrome1-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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