About: No. 11 Squadron RCAF     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:Unit108189659, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FNo._11_Squadron_RCAF&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

No. 11 Squadron RCAF was a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron that was active during the Second World War. It was primarily used in an anti-submarine role and was based on the east coast of Canada and Newfoundland. It was initially formed at RCAF Station Ottawa before moving to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on 3 November 1939, where it became operational. From 26 October 1943 to 17 June 1944, it operated from Torbay, Newfoundland before returning to Halifax for a year, before again moving, across the country to Patricia Bay, British Columbia on 31 May 1945. The squadron flew the Lockheed Hudson and Consolidated Liberator maritime patrol bombers before disbanding on 15 September.The unit's first operational flight, on 10 November 1939, was to provide sighting practice for the anti-aircraft guns of

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • No. 11 Squadron RCAF (en)
rdfs:comment
  • No. 11 Squadron RCAF was a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron that was active during the Second World War. It was primarily used in an anti-submarine role and was based on the east coast of Canada and Newfoundland. It was initially formed at RCAF Station Ottawa before moving to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on 3 November 1939, where it became operational. From 26 October 1943 to 17 June 1944, it operated from Torbay, Newfoundland before returning to Halifax for a year, before again moving, across the country to Patricia Bay, British Columbia on 31 May 1945. The squadron flew the Lockheed Hudson and Consolidated Liberator maritime patrol bombers before disbanding on 15 September.The unit's first operational flight, on 10 November 1939, was to provide sighting practice for the anti-aircraft guns of (en)
foaf:name
  • No. 11 Squadron RCAF (en)
foaf:nick
  • The Joe Squadron (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lockheed_Hudson_ExCC.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Royal_Canadian_Air_Force_Ensign_(1941-1968).svg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
aircraft patrol
  • Consolidated Liberator III, V & VI (en)
  • Lockheed Hudson I & III (en)
battle honours
  • North-West Atlantic 1939-1945 (en)
  • Pacific Coast 1945 (en)
battles
  • Second World War * Battle of the Atlantic * Battle of the St. Lawrence (en)
branch
caption
  • No. 11 Squadron Lockheed Hudson (en)
command structure
dates
decorations
identification symbol
  • KL (en)
  • OY (en)
identification symbol label
  • Unit Codes (en)
nickname
  • The Joe Squadron (en)
role
  • Bomber Reconnaissance (en)
unit name
  • No. 11 Squadron RCAF (en)
has abstract
  • No. 11 Squadron RCAF was a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron that was active during the Second World War. It was primarily used in an anti-submarine role and was based on the east coast of Canada and Newfoundland. It was initially formed at RCAF Station Ottawa before moving to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on 3 November 1939, where it became operational. From 26 October 1943 to 17 June 1944, it operated from Torbay, Newfoundland before returning to Halifax for a year, before again moving, across the country to Patricia Bay, British Columbia on 31 May 1945. The squadron flew the Lockheed Hudson and Consolidated Liberator maritime patrol bombers before disbanding on 15 September.The unit's first operational flight, on 10 November 1939, was to provide sighting practice for the anti-aircraft guns of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Repulse and aircraft carrier HMS Furious, as well as for the Halifax, Nova Scotia shore batteries. (en)
flying hours
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
active years end year
active years start year
battle honours
  • North-West Atlantic 1939-1945
  • Pacific Coast 1945
identification symbol
  • KL (1942)
  • OY (1939-1942)
role
  • Bomber Reconnaissance
aircraft patrol
battle
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 54 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software