816 Naval Air Squadron
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| 816 Naval Air Squadron | ||
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 Current RAN 816 Squadron crest Squadron badge |
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| Aircraft operated | *Fairey Swordfish | |
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| Date founded | 1939 | |
| Badge | tigers head | |
| Notable Battle Honours | *Norway 1940,
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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.
[edit] Battle Honours
- Norway 1940,
- Narvik 1940,
- Malta Convoys 1941,
- Mediterranean 1941,
- Atlantic 1943,
- Arctic 1944,
- Normandy 1944
[edit] See also
List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons
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