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357th Rifle Division
357th may refer to: * 357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment, brigade level Air Defense unit of the United States Army * 357th Airlift Squadron (357 AS), part of the 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama * 357th Fighter Group, air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War * 357th Fighter Squadron (357 FS), part of the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona See also * 357 (number) * 357, the year 357 (CCCLVII) of the Julian calendar * 357 BC {{mil-unit-dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment
The 357th Air & Missile Defense Detachment, activated on 15 April 2008, was a brigade level air defense unit of the United States Army based in Kaiserslautern, Germany. It was a subordinate unit of United States Army Europe United States Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF) is an Army Service Component Command (ASCC) /Theater Army responsible for directing United States Army operations throughout the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICO .... Subordinate units * 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment Lineage Constituted 17 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 357th Coast Artillery Transport Detachment. Activated 5 July 1944 in Australia. Inactivated 1 April 1946 in Japan. Redesignated 19 November 1948 as the 357th Antiaircraft Artillery Operations Detachment and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps. Activated 14 December 1948 at East Orange, New Jersey. Inactivated 30 June 1950 at East Orange, New Jersey. (Organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
357th Airlift Squadron
The 357th Airlift Squadron is a Tactical Airlift unit of the United States Air Force assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command and part of the 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. It operates Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft providing global airlift. The 357th AS operates (8) C-130H2 aircraft that were built in the 1990s, which utilize Flight Engineers and Navigators, along with the crew complement of Pilots and Loadmasters. The 908th Airlift Wing contributes the US' defense by providing airlift and related services through the dedicated efforts of more than 1,200 Reservists and eight C-130 Hercules aircraft. Unit Reservists fly approximately 1 million miles annually engaging in training operations and supporting real-world missions. The 908th Airlift Wing, home based at historic Maxwell-Gunter AFB in Montgomery, Ala., is the state's only Air Force Reserve unit. The day-to-day operations of the 908th are handled by a group of approximately 175 civil servants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
357th Fighter Group
The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. The 357th operated P-51 Mustang aircraft as part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force and its members were known unofficially as the Yoxford Boys after the village of Yoxford near their base in the UK. (Group tradition holds that the name was the invention of Lord Haw Haw in a broadcast greeting the night of its arrival at RAF Leiston.) Its victory totals in air-to-air combat are the most of any P-51 group in the Eighth Air Force and third among all groups fighting in Europe.''USAF Historical Study 85: USAF Credits for Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II''. Office of Air Force History, AFHRA, 624, 629, 631, 633. Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
357th Fighter Squadron
The 357th Fighter Squadron is part of the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. It operates Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft training pilots for close air support missions. The squadron was first activated during World War II as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron. After training in the United States the unit deployed to the European Theater of Operations. The unit entered combat operations in the summer of 1943, continuing in combat until April 1945. It earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for carrying out a difficult attack in April 1944. The squadron moved to Germany, where it was briefly part of the occupation forces before returning to the United States where it was inactivated in November 1945. Mission The 357th conducts all formal course directed aircraft transition, day and night weapons and tactics employment, day and night aerial refueling, and dissimilar air combat maneuvers. The squadron trains pilots to pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
357 (number)
300 (three hundred) is the natural number following 299 and preceding 301. Mathematical properties The number 300 is a triangular number and the sum of a pair of twin primes (149 + 151), as well as the sum of ten consecutive primes (13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47). It is palindromic in 3 consecutive bases: 30010 = 6067 = 4548 = 3639, and also in base 13. Factorization is 30064 + 1 is prime Other fields Three hundred is: * In bowling, a perfect score, achieved by rolling strikes in all ten frames (a total of twelve strikes) * The lowest possible Fair Isaac credit score * Three hundred ft/s is the maximum legal speed of a shot paintball * In the Hebrew Bible, the size of the military force deployed by the Israelite judge Gideon against the Midianites () * According to Islamic tradition, 300 is the number of ancient Israeli king Thalut's soldiers victorious against Goliath's soldiers * According to Herodotus, 300 is the number of ancient Spart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
