816 Naval Air Squadron
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816-naval-air-squadron-251-3919514
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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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Military unit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/816_Naval_Air_Squadron
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2024-01-01T21:18:07Z
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