No. 204 Squadron RAF

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No. 204 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force maritime patrol unit best known for its long-range anti-submarine and reconnaissance operations, particularly during the Second World War.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
No. 204 Squadron RAF canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Air Force squadron
aircraftOperated Bristol Blenheim NERFINISHED
Consolidated Liberator NERFINISHED
Lockheed Hudson NERFINISHED
Short Sunderland NERFINISHED
Sopwith Camel NERFINISHED
Sopwith Pup NERFINISHED
Sopwith Triplane NERFINISHED
allegiance British Crown NERFINISHED
associatedNation United Kingdom NERFINISHED
branch Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
commandStructure RAF Coastal Command NERFINISHED
conflict World War II
surface form: Second World War
country United Kingdom
equipment ASV radar
air-dropped depth charges
sonobuoys
era First World War NERFINISHED
Second World War NERFINISHED
formedAs No. 4 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service NERFINISHED
garrison RAF Bathurst NERFINISHED
RAF Gibraltar NERFINISHED
RAF Lagens NERFINISHED
RAF Mount Batten NERFINISHED
RAF Pembroke Dock NERFINISHED
militaryBranchType air force
missionType anti-submarine patrol
convoy escort
long-range maritime patrol
search and rescue
notableFor long-range anti-submarine operations during the Second World War
maritime reconnaissance operations during the Second World War
operationalEnvironment Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED
Bay of Biscay NERFINISHED
West African coast
Western Approaches NERFINISHED
precededBy No. 4 Squadron RNAS NERFINISHED
primaryTarget German U-boats NERFINISHED
role anti-submarine warfare
maritime patrol
reconnaissance
service Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
Royal Naval Air Service NERFINISHED
serviceNumber 204
taskingAuthority Coastal Command NERFINISHED
theatre Battle of the Atlantic NERFINISHED
type flying boat squadron
maritime patrol squadron

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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. 204 Squadron RAF
Description of subject: No. 204 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force maritime patrol unit best known for its long-range anti-submarine and reconnaissance operations, particularly during the Second World War.

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

Short Sunderland operator No. 204 Squadron RAF