No. 617 Squadron RAF

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Royal Air Force squadron

No. 617 Squadron RAF is a famous Royal Air Force unit best known for its World War II "Dambusters" raid using specially designed bouncing bombs against German dams in 1943.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
No. 617 Squadron RAF canonical	29

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Royal Air Force squadron ⓘ
aircraftOperated	Avro Lancaster ⓘ Vulcan bomber ⓘ surface form: Avro Vulcan F-35B Lightning II ⓘ surface form: Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Panavia Tornado ⓘ surface form: Panavia Tornado GR1 Panavia Tornado GR4 ⓘ
alliedWith	Royal Navy ⓘ
awardedToMembers	The Victoria Cross ⓘ surface form: Victoria Cross
basedAt	RAF Lossiemouth ⓘ RAF Scampton ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
currentRole	F-35B Lightning force ⓘ
dateFormed	1943-03-21 ⓘ
designation	617 Squadron ⓘ
firstCommandingOfficer	Guy Gibson ⓘ
formedDuring	World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
hasBattleHonour	War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ surface form: Afghanistan 2001–2014 Channel and North Sea 1943–1945 ⓘ Dams Raid 1943 ⓘ France and Germany 1944–1945 ⓘ Iraq 1991 ⓘ Iraq 2003 ⓘ Battle of Normandy ⓘ surface form: Normandy 1944
heritage	Dambusters tradition ⓘ
initialBase	RAF Scampton ⓘ
laterPartOf	Royal Air Force Air Command ⓘ surface form: RAF Air Command RAF Strike Command ⓘ
militaryBranch	Royal Air Force ⓘ
motto	Après moi le déluge ⓘ
mottoLanguage	French ⓘ
mottoTranslation	After me, the flood ⓘ
nickname	The Dam Busters (1955 film) ⓘ surface form: Dambusters
notableCommander	Guy Gibson ⓘ surface form: Wing Commander Guy Gibson
notableFor	Operation Chastise ⓘ surface form: Dambusters raid precision low-level bombing of German dams in 1943 ⓘ
notableOperation	Operation Chastise ⓘ
operatesFrom	HMS Prince of Wales ⓘ HMS Queen Elizabeth ⓘ RAF Marham ⓘ
partOf	Royal Air Force Bomber Command ⓘ surface form: RAF Bomber Command
role	precision bombing ⓘ special operations ⓘ
targeted	Eder Dam ⓘ Möhne Dam ⓘ Sorpe Dam ⓘ
type	fast jet squadron ⓘ
usedWeapon	Upkeep ⓘ surface form: Upkeep bomb bouncing bomb ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: No. 617 Squadron RAF
Description of subject: No. 617 Squadron RAF is a famous Royal Air Force unit best known for its World War II "Dambusters" raid using specially designed bouncing bombs against German dams in 1943.

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command → notableUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Operation Chastise → unit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Lancaster → unitInvolved → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

subject surface form: Avro Lancaster

RAF Scampton → notableUnitStationed → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Avro Lancaster → unitInvolved → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Upkeep bouncing bomb → usedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Sorpe Dam → attackedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Guy Gibson → commanded → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Vulcan bomber → usedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

subject surface form: Avro Vulcan

Marham → homeToUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

subject surface form: RAF Marham

The Dam Busters (1955 film) → depictsUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Tallboy bomb → usedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

RAF Marham → garrison → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

EGXP → historicallyAssociatedWith → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Lanc → usedByUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

subject surface form: Avro Lancaster

Enemy Coast Ahead → mainSubject → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Enemy Coast Ahead → depictsUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

RAF Memorial at Woodhall Spa → notableUnitCommemorated → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Dambusters Memorial at Derwent Reservoir → hasSubject → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Dambusters Raid sites → targetedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Upkeep → usedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Upkeep → notableUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Dambuster bomb → usedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

bouncing bomb → operatedByUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Dams Raid 1943 → conductedBy → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Guy Penrose Gibson → memberOf → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Leonard Cheshire → commanded → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

Eve Moore → spouseOfMilitaryUnit → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

The Dam Busters (book) → mainSubject → No. 617 Squadron RAF ⓘ

subject surface form: The Dam Busters