The activation of the 17th Pursuit Group and several subordinate units along with the arrival of the 1st Bombardment Wing initiated a period where March Field became associated with the Air Corps ' heaviest aircraft as well as an assortment of fighters.

Image: 17th PursuitGroup-March-18feb1935. jpg | Boeing P-26A Peashooters of the 17th Pursuit Group, 18 February 1935.

Image: 17thpg-p-36a-march-7nov1939. jpg | Curtiss P-36A Hawks of the 17th Pursuit Group, 7 November 1939

The 17th Pursuit Squadron ( Provisional ) was established on 14 January, and 13 of its 17 pilots had previously been with the 24th PG.

260 men, including the remnants of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, were evacuated by five B-17s and three LB-30s.

*** 17th Pursuit Squadron ( Nichols Field )

* 17th Pursuit Squadron, 5 December 1940 ( Seversky P-35 )

The 17th and 20th Pursuit Squadrons, which had arrived with a full complement, were continually losing men through transfers to other organizations more seriously understaffed.

The 17th Pursuit Squadron was therefore transferred to its old base at Nichols Field, and shortly afterward, on October 26, the 3d Pursuit Squadron took its place at the new Iba Airfield and began gunnery training.

: 17th Pursuit Squadron, Nichols Field ( P-40E )

A six-ship flight from the 17th Pursuit Squadron, was therefore ordered to attempt interception on the night of December 4-5th ; but their search mission was unsuccessful, largely due to the lack of air-ground communication.

At about 08: 00 while one shift of the flight crews were eating breakfast, the 17th Pursuit Squadron received orders to cover Clark Field, as a heavy fleet of Japanese bombers were reported north of Luzon heading down Lingayen Gulf towards the central plain.

Mitchell was replaced in January as commander of the Third Army Air Service by Col. Harold Fowler, a combat veteran of the Royal Flying Corps and former commander of the American 17th Pursuit Squadron.

The 17th Pursuit Squadron took off at 12: 15 p. m. from Clark, ordered to patrol Bataan and Manila Bay, while the 34th PS at Del Carmen never received its orders to protect Clark Field and did not launch.

: 17th Pursuit Squadron ( Interceptor )*

" Candy-filled shmoos were air-dropped to hungry West Berliners by America's 17th Military Airport Squadron during the humanitarian effort.

Reproduction of a Sopwith Camel biplane flown by George Augustus Vaughn, Jr. | Lt. George A. Vaughn Jr., 17th Aero Squadron

Not to be confused with yachting, yacht racing's history began in 17th century England and is arguably demarcated by the establishment of the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1815.

The 17th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron, equipped with EB-57 Canberras, was activated in the 1970s to train NORAD air defense personnel in electronic countermeasures.

: Re-designated: 17th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron, 1 July 1974-13 July 1979 ( EB-57 Canberras )

Squadrons assigned to the 5th MG are the 5th Munitions, Detachment 1 ( Formerly 5th Munitions, Fiscal year 2010 will change to 17th Muns ), 5th Maintenance Squadron, 5th Maintenance Ops Squadron and 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.

* 17th Munitions Squadron, 9 October 2009 – Present

*** 17th Bomb Squadron ( San Fernando Auxiliary Field )

** 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment ( OH-58D ), " Lighthorse "

* 1st Squadron 17th Cavalry Regiment ( Airborne, Air Cav )

And on 8 January 1955, the 4750th Tow Target Squadron became the 17th TTS.

* During the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin, Germany in 1948, candy-filled shmoos were air-dropped to hungry West Berliners from transport planes by America's 17th Military Airport Squadron.

**** 17th Military Police ( Provost ) Squadron

Work on the landing strips at Nichols Field had not been completed, and their poor condition resulted in a high accident rate for the 17th Squadron.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

" It is based on " similarities emanating from historical, social and cultural characteristics ", and it is identified as having been " one of the world's richest sources of creative talent " between the 17th and 20th centuries.

In the Age of Exploration, from the 15th century to the 17th century, European cartographers both copied earlier maps ( some of which had been passed down for centuries ) and drew their own based on explorers ' observations and new surveying techniques.

The design of this example is closely based on Flemish needle lace of the 17th century.

Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, a Mestizo historian and descendant of Coanacoch, wrote an account of the executions in the 17th century partly based on Texcocan oral tradition.

As Greenwich Village was once a rural hamlet, to the north of the 17th century European settlement on Manhattan Island, its street layout is more haphazard than the grid pattern of the 19th-century grid plan ( based on the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 ).

A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.

By the middle of the 17th century, plays such as Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda, although based largely on the earlier Elizabethan works, were transferring the role of Protestant champion to the barons and focusing more on the tyrannical aspects of John's behaviour.

In the 16th century Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable magnificence. The 16th and 17th centuries saw other privately endowed libraries assembled in Rome: the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of Cesare Baronio, the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in Counter-Reformation Rome ; the Biblioteca Alessandrina with which Pope Alexander VII endowed the University of Rome ; the Biblioteca Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate ; and finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the bibliophile Clement XII Corsini and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini, still housed in Palazzo Corsini in via della Lungara. The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. In Milan Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

" Historical martial arts " in both Asia and Europe are mostly based on such records of the late medieval to early modern period ( 15th to 17th centuries ; see also Koryū ).

For example, the flag of Denmark was introduced in 1854, based on a 17th century design.

The supernatural element is based on the story of Castle Wewelsburg, a 17th century castle occupied by the Germans under Heinrich Himmler's control, and used for occult rituals and practices.

William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier.

All of these claims, however, are generally not supported by martial arts historians because the idea of Bodhidharma influencing Shaolin boxing is based on a forged qigong manual written during the 17th century.

* From the 17th century onwards, it also became possible to use the term ' theology ' to refer to study of religious ideas and teachings that are not specifically Christian ( e. g., in the phrase ' Natural Theology ' which denoted theology based on reasoning from natural facts independent of specifically Christian revelation ), or that are specific to another religion ( see below ).

Thereafter, the region was known to the British as the " Pirate Coast ", as raiders based there harassed the shipping industry despite both European and Omani navies patrolling the area from the 17th century into the 19th century.

In the 17th century, English common law judge Sir Edward Coke revived the idea of rights based on citizenship by arguing that Englishmen had historically enjoyed such rights.

In the 17th century Francis Willughby ( 1635 – 1672 ) and John Ray ( 1627 – 1705 ) came up with the first major system of bird classification that was based on function and morphology rather than on form or behaviour.

Evidence also appears to show that the stories had spread to the Balkans and a translation of the Nights into Romanian existed by the 17th century, itself based on a Greek version of the collection.

The cartographic depictions of the southern continent in the 16th and early 17th centuries, as might be expected for a concept based on such abundant conjecture and minimal data, varied wildly from map to map ; in general, the continent shrank as potential locations were reinterpreted.

Within this theoretical framework, a French creole is a language phylogenetically based on the French language, more specifically on a 17th century koiné French extant in Paris, the French Atlantic harbours, and the nascent French colonies.

Once the Dutch established hegemony in the 17th century, the Netherlands ' power on Bacan was based in Fort Barnaveld.

In response to the Allied landings on Guadalcanal, the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters assigned the Imperial Japanese Army's ( IJA ) 17th Army, a corps-sized command based at Rabaul and under the command of Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake, the task of retaking Guadalcanal.

By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch had built by far the largest mercantile fleet in Europe, with more ships than all the other states combined, and their economy, based mainly on maritime commerce, gave them a dominant position in European trade, especially in the North Sea and Baltic.

From the 17th to mid-19th centuries civil parishes were based on early Christian and medieval monastic and church settlements.