About: No. 161 Squadron RAF     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : umbel-rc:Troop_MilitaryUnit, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FNo._161_Squadron_RAF

No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron was a highly secretive unit of the Royal Air Force, performing missions as part of the Royal Air Force Special Duties Service. It was tasked with missions of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) during the Second World War. Their primary role was to drop and collect secret agents and equipment into and from Nazi-occupied Europe. The squadron had a secondary role in acting as the King's Flight.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • No. 161 Squadron RAF (fr)
  • No. 161 Squadron RAF (en)
  • 161e Squadron RAF (nl)
rdfs:comment
  • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron was a highly secretive unit of the Royal Air Force, performing missions as part of the Royal Air Force Special Duties Service. It was tasked with missions of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) during the Second World War. Their primary role was to drop and collect secret agents and equipment into and from Nazi-occupied Europe. The squadron had a secondary role in acting as the King's Flight. (en)
  • Le Squadron RAF No. 161 fut, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, une unité de bombardement de jour de la Royal Air Force. Elle fut utilisée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour acheminer dans les pays d'Europe occupés, à partir du terrain RAF de Tempsford, des agents du Special Operations Executive et des matériels destinés aux résistants. D'autres opérations eurent lieu pour amener en Angleterre des personnalités ou des pilotes abattus. (fr)
  • 161 (Special Duties) Squadron was een zeer geheime eenheid van de Royal Air Force, die missies uitvoerde als onderdeel van de Royal Air Force Special Duties Service. Het squadron had tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog als opdracht de clandestiene acties van de Special Operations Executive (SOE) en de Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) te ondersteunen. Zijn primaire rol was het droppen en oppikken van geheim agenten en apparatuur in het door de nazi's bezette Europa. Het 161 Squadron trad daarnaast ook op als King's Flight (het vliegtransport van de Britse koninklijke familie en van de regering). (nl)
foaf:name
  • No. 161 Squadron RAF (en)
foaf:homepage
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ensign_of_the_Royal_Air_Force.svg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Groupe_161_de_Tangmere_1943_Lysander_5594.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/No._161_Squadron_RAF_badge.png
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
branch
country
  • United Kingdom (en)
dates
identification symbol
  • An open fetterlock (en)
  • JR Apr 1944 - 1945 (en)
  • MA Feb 1942 - 1945 (en)
identification symbol 3 label
  • Squadron codes (en)
identification symbol label
  • Squadron badge heraldry (en)
motto
  • Liberate (en)
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, 51 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software