About: 816 Naval Air Squadron

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816 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed at the start of the Second World War. The squadron formed aboard HMS Furious in October 1939 with 9 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers for anti-submarine duty on convoys between the UK and Canada In 1948 it was re-formed as 816 Squadron RAN an Australian squadron with the Fairey Firefly and embarked on HMAS Sydney.

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rdf:type	Military Unit
rdfs:label	816 Naval Air Squadron
rdfs:comment	816 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed at the start of the Second World War. The squadron formed aboard HMS Furious in October 1939 with 9 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers for anti-submarine duty on convoys between the UK and Canada In 1948 it was re-formed as 816 Squadron RAN an Australian squadron with the Fairey Firefly and embarked on HMAS Sydney.
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dcterms:subject	Military units and formations established in 1939 dbkwik:resource/gwR6jBapC35Hu4HZ6PybxQ==
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aircraft attack	Fairey Swordfish Supermarine Seafire Grumman Wildcat V Fairey Barracuda II *Fairey Firefly FR.I
Branch	Royal Navy
command structure	Fleet Air Arm
Role	Anti-submarine
identification symbol	Tigers Head
Country	United Kingdom
Dates	1939(xsd:integer)
Unit Name	816(xsd:integer)
battle honours	Norway 1940, Narvik 1940, Malta Convoys 1941, Mediterranean 1941, Atlantic 1943, Arctic 1944, *Normandy 1944
Motto	"Imitate the action of the tiger"
abstract	816 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed at the start of the Second World War. The squadron formed aboard HMS Furious in October 1939 with 9 Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers for anti-submarine duty on convoys between the UK and Canada In 1948 it was re-formed as 816 Squadron RAN an Australian squadron with the Fairey Firefly and embarked on HMAS Sydney.

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