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Formed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent on 10 Feb 1943, it departed almost immediately for Canada as a training unit, which was redisgnated 754 Squadron in June 1944. In Mar 1944, meanwhile, another 744 Squadron had formed at Maydown as a Merchant Aircraft Carrier training unit, to feed crews to 836 Squadron. The Squadron took on more Anti-Submarine training until it moved solely for this purpose to RNAS Eglinton in Oct 1945. It transformed into the front line 815 Squadron on 1 Dec 1947. It reformed from a flight of 737 Squadron again at Eglinton, as a fixed wing development and trials unit in Jul 1951. From Dec 1952 it gained Dragonfly HR.3s for Search and Rescue until the unit disbanded on 1 Mar 1954 and the Dragonfly left. It reformed at RNAS Culdrose on the same day as a fixed wing anti-submarine development unit and moved in Oct 1954 to RAF St.Mawgan, where it disbanded on 31 Oct 1956.  |
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