A naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task

Usage examples of squadron.

Commodore had reformed the squadron into a single line abreast, except for the pair detached ahead.

These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.

Ever since the rash but successful enterprise of the Franks under the reign of Probus, their daring countrymen had constructed squadrons of light brigantines, in which they incessantly ravaged the provinces adjacent to the ocean.

All they knew they learned from aerograms, one from Admiral Durenne off the Isle of Wight saying that the Portsmouth forts had been silenced and the Fleet action had begun, and another from the Commodore of the squadron off Folkestone saying that all was going well, and the landing would shortly be effected: and thus they fully expected to have the three towns and the entrance to the Thames at their mercy by the following day.

Anyway, Mr Sweet, forget Digby going to your crew even if he is the best bomb aimer in the Squadron.

Flying Officer Harry Darby was the bomb aimer in a 514 Squadron Lancaster, on his first operation.

Flight Lieutenant Alfred Mug-geridge, bomb aimer in a 156 Squadron Lancaster shot down that night near Magdeburg, describes how his aircraft was attacked by a night fighter.

Flight Sergeant Ivan Taylor was the Australian bomb aimer in a Blind Marker Lancaster of 7 Squadron.

I immediately take off with the squadron and close to the airfield I see horses, their dismounted riders beside them, all Ivans.

Christmas Eve the Soviets have overrun the neighbouring airfield at Tazinskaja, 30 miles west, where a transport squadron of our command is stationed.

For sorties further north my squadron uses the airfield at Woroschilowgrad.

Another Way In A Special Amphibious Squadron Flying Comrades Smoke continued to pour into the bridge station.

The pilots of the elite amphibious squadron had all been handpicked by Captain Francesca Cook.

Immediately behind them, the amphibious squadron took to the air, a rapid succession of plane after plane leaping like fish off a dock.

Behind them, the full squadron of amphibious planes dove into the water, vanishing beneath the surface, leaving only a scar of churned foam to mark where they had entered the sea.