No. 139 Squadron RAF

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No. 139 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force bomber and reconnaissance unit that saw notable service during both World Wars.

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Label Occurrences
No. 139 Squadron RAF canonical 1

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Air Force squadron
aircraftOperated Avro Vulcan NERFINISHED
Bristol Blenheim NERFINISHED
Bristol F.2 Fighter NERFINISHED
English Electric Canberra NERFINISHED
de Havilland Mosquito NERFINISHED
airForce Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
allegiance British Crown NERFINISHED
branch Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
category Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force in World War I
Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force in World War II
Royal Air Force bomber squadrons
Royal Air Force reconnaissance squadrons
conflict World War I
surface form: First World War

World War II
surface form: Second World War
country United Kingdom
formationDate 3 July 1918
formedAs No. 139 Squadron RFC NERFINISHED
garrisonLabel Base
notableFor early use of Bristol Blenheim bombers in World War II
low‑level daylight bombing operations
participation in strategic bombing of Germany
pathfinder operations with de Havilland Mosquito aircraft
operationalTheatre European theatre of World War II NERFINISHED
Western Front NERFINISHED
role bomber squadron
reconnaissance squadron
serviceBranchDuringWWI Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
serviceBranchDuringWWII Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
status disbanded
typeOfBomber light bomber
medium bomber

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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.
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Subject: No. 139 Squadron RAF
Description of subject: No. 139 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force bomber and reconnaissance unit that saw notable service during both World Wars.

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

Major William Barker militaryUnit No. 139 Squadron RAF
subject surface form: William George Barker