Talk:List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons

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Why is there not a section for US manned for the Eagle squadron?

Also in in his autobiograohy "Make for the Hills" Sir Robert Thompson (counter-insurgency expert) wrote:

[At XIV army HQ in Burma] There were not only the usual liason offices but, uniquely, an American, or rather Texan, B25 squadron in the Group under RAF command. It consisted mainly of Texans who had originally joined the RAF and had been transfered to the USAAF after America came into the war. They had asked to remain under RAF command for the rest of the war.

I think that this must have been been 490 Bomb Squadron USAAF (the Bridge Busters). Should there be a section for this? Philip Baird Shearer 16:17, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Polish squadrons

Contrary to what David Newton wrote in the edit summary, the Polish squadrons were integral part of the Polish Air Forces (except for the Skalski's Circus and the Special Squadrons not listed here). They were formed by the Brits with British equipment and fought under British command, but nevertheless were part of the RAF only logistically. They were given RAF numbers for reasons of consistency but were part of Polish Air Forces, not RAF. That's why I believe they should be named the way they were named in history, not how they are referred to by some books. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 19:49, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Next time that you rv to the last version by yours truly, see talk page for explanation please check what you are reverting to. In doing that you removed the contribution I had added about the American Eagle Squadrons which had nothing to do with the changes you objected too.

BTW on putting the information back on Eagle squadrons the in I have also placed your Polish squadrons back into the numeric sequence that the list is in. See French squadrons for another example.

As there can be redirects on squadron names why not leave the names with the bureaucratic names that existed in this list and put in a #Redirect to the name you prefer rather than changing this list to nick names? Remember that unlike British Army regiments that these RAF units may be reformed with totally different functions eg No. 152 Squadron RAF. It seems silly to me to start an edit war over links to pages which do not exist! Philip Baird Shearer 09:57, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sorry for the revert of your useful changes, I hadn't noticed them. As to the Polish squadrons - the problem is the same as with Tadeusz Kościuszko and his American nick-name Thaddeus Kosciusko: his name was never changed, but sometimes he is referred to by some Americanised spelling. The same is with those units: their full official names were those I listed. Sometimes the British authorities referred to them using other names, which does not change the fact that those were not the names of those units, those were just "nick-names". However, you are right that there is no point in quarrelling about empty links. I'll get back to it when I finally find some time to prepare the articles (they are on my to-do list). [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 15:42, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)