816 Naval Air Squadron
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 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".
Q172771
Royal Navy
ORG
Q1427735
Fleet Air Arm
MISC
Q362
Second World War
EVE
Q674079
Fairey Swordfish
MISC
Q753224
torpedo bomber
MISC
Q16
Canada
LOC
Q4644508
816 Squadron RAN
MEDIA
Q994007
Fairey Firefly
MISC
Q1564112
HMAS "Sydney"
MISC
Q4644509
816 Naval Air Squadron
ORG
1939-10-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
October 1939
DATE
1948-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1948
DATE
+816^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
816
NUMBER
+9^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
9
NUMBER
military branch
conflict
military branch
subclass of
inception