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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. (en)
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- *Normandy 1944
- *Arctic 1944,
- *Atlantic 1943,
- *Malta Convoys 1941,
- *Mediterranean1941,
- *Narvik 1940,
- *Norway 1940,
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- "Imitate the action of the tiger"
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- *Fairey Swordfish
*Supermarine Seafire
*Grumman Wildcat V
*Fairey Barracuda II
*Fairey Firefly FR.I (en)
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- *Norway 1940,
*Narvik 1940,
*Malta Convoys 1941,
*Mediterranean 1941,
*Atlantic 1943,
*Arctic 1944,
*Normandy 1944 (en)
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- "Imitate the action of the tiger" (en)
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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. (en)
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- 816 Naval Air Squadron (en)
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- 816 Naval Air Squadron (en)
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