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rdfs:label
  • No. 51 Squadron RAF
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
skos:prefLabel
  • No. 51 Squadron RAF
skos:altLabel
  • 51
  • No. 51 Squadron
  • 51 Squadron
  • 51 (Home Defence)
  • 51 Sqn
  • No 51 Squadron
  • No. 51
  • No. 51 (Home Defence) Squadron RAF
  • No. 51 Sqn
  • No. 51 Squadron RFC
  • No. 51 Whitley Squadron
  • No. 51 Squadron
  • No.51 Sqn RAF
clgo:activeYearsEndYear
  • 1918
clgo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 1916
clgo:battleHonours
  • * (Honours marked with an asterisk may be emblazoned on the Squadron Standard)
  • *Gulf(1991)
  • *Home Defence (1916–1918)*
  • *Invasion Ports (1940)
  • *Iraq(2003–2011)
  • *Ruhr(1940–1945)*
  • *France and Germany (1944–1945)*
  • *Normandy(1944)
  • *Kosovo
  • *Libya(2011)
  • *Walcheren
  • *Norway(1940)*
  • *Rhine
  • *France and Low Countries (1940)
  • *Baltic1940–1944*
  • *Berlin1940–1944
  • *Biscay 1942
  • *Biscay Ports(1940–1944)
  • *Channel and North Sea (1940–1943)
  • *Fortress Europe (1940–1944)
  • *German Ports (1940–1945)
  • *Italy(1943)*
  • *South Atlantic1982
clgo:commandStructure
clgo:country
clgo:garrison
clgo:identificationSymbol
  • ('C' Flt which became 578 Sqn)
  • ('C' Flt)
  • Agoosevolant, chosen as a play on the word 'Anson', the aircraft which the squadron was flying when the badge was being designed, as 'Anser' is theLatinword for Goose, and it was felt that a heavywild fowlwas appropriate for a bomber squadron. Approved byKing George VIin December 1937.
  • C6 (Jan 1944 – May 1945)
  • LK (? – Jan 1944)
  • MH (Dec 1949 – Oct 1950)
  • MH (Sep 1939 – May 1945)
  • TB (May 1945 – Dec 1949)
  • UT (Aug 1939 – Sep 1939)
clgo:militaryBranch
clgo:militaryUnitSize
  • Three aircraft
clgo:motto
  • Swift and Sure
clgo:role
  • Signals intelligence
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