No. 208 Squadron RAF

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rdf:type	Royal Naval Air Service squadron owl:NamedIndividual Hawker Hunter operator Hawker Hurricane operator Military unit or formation established in 1916 Royal Air Force aircraft squadron Military unit or formation disestablished in 2016 Military unit or formation of the Royal Air Force in World War I Military unit or formation in Moratory Palestine in World War II Aerial victory of Kurt Wolff 1916 establishment in the United Kingdom Aircraft squadron of the Royal Air Force in World War II Hawker Hart and variants operators RAF squadron code Supermarine Spitfire operator Westland Lysander operator
rdfs:label	No. 208 Squadron RAF
owl:sameAs	dbr:No._208_Squadron_RAF
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skos:prefLabel	No. 208 Squadron RAF
skos:altLabel	208 No. 8 Squadron 208 (Army Co-operation) Squadron 208 Sqn 208 Squadron 208 Squadrons 208 squadron 208(R) Squadron 8 (Naval) Squadron 8 Naval Squadron Naval 8 Squadron Naval Squadron No. 8 No 8 (Naval) Squadron No 8 (Naval) Squadron No. 208 No. 208 (R) Squadron No. 208 (Reserve) Squadron No. 208 Army Cooperation Squadron No. 208 Squadron No. 208 Squadron RAF#Flying Buccaneers No. 8 (Naval) Squadron No. 8 (Naval) Squadron RNAS No. 8 Naval Squadron No. 8 Naval Squadron RNAS No. 8 Squadron RNAS No. 8 Squadron RNAS No.8 Squadron RNAS RAF 208 Squadron No. 8 (Naval) Squadron, which became No. 208 Squadron RAF
clgo:activeYearsEndYear	1919 2016
clgo:activeYearsStartYear	1916
clgo:battleHonours	Lys Gothic Line Iraq 1941 Gustav Line Western Front 1915-1918* Syria 1941 (Honours marked with an asterisk* are those emblazoned on the Squadron Standard) Arras* Egypt and Libya 1940-1942* El Alamein* Greece 1941* Gulf 1991* Italy 1944-1945* Somme 1918* Ypres 1917*
clgo:country	United Kingdom
clgo:garrison	RAF Valley
clgo:identificationSymbol	150px A sphinx affrontée proper D (1994 - present) GA (Apr 1939 - Sep 1939) RG (Mar 1944 - 1949) S (Carried on Buccaneers) (The Gizah Sphinx commemorated the Squadron's long association with Egypt during the inter-war years. An unofficial 'winged eye' badge had been in use from July 1930 until 1937.)
clgo:militaryBranch	Royal Air Force
clgo:motto	Vigilant
clgo:notableCommander	Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet
clgo:role	Advanced flying training Conversion training Instructor training
is clgo:militaryBranch of	Malcolm Clifford Howell
is clgo:militaryUnit of	Reginald Soar Robert J. O. Compston Anthony Arnold Thomas Gerrard (RAF officer) Robert A. Little Guy William Price Michael Stear Stanley Goble Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith John Lloyd Williams (RAF officer) Frank George Gibbons Kenneth Leask Richard Burnard Munday Robert Leith-Macgregor William Mann (RAF officer) Edward Crundall Graham Bladon George Goodman Simpson Edward Grahame Johnstone Pruett Mullens Dennett Ronald Thornely Edward Grange John Worrall (RAF officer) Sydney Pope Harold Day (Royal Navy officer)

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