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Formed at Quonset Point, USA in Apr 1943 as a TBR Avenger unit. Returned to UK on the Attacker Class HMS Ravager (D70) in Jul 1943 and eventually embarked on HMS Tracker in Jan 1944 for convoy duty off Gibraltar. It joined 15 Group RAF Coastal Command at Limvardy, when the ship was damaged in Jun 1944. The squadron embarked on HMS Trumpeter (D09) in Jul 1944 for operations off Norway, mine-laying till Sep 1944. From December, the squadron operated from HMS Trumpeter or Hatston until May 1945 when the fighter flight was disbanded. After VE Day the squadron was due to join HMS Illustrious (4th Carrier Air Group), but plans changed and it became 751 Squadron to conduct trials. It disbanded in Sep 1945 at Machrihanish.
846 NAS reformed in May 1962 as the second Commando Squadron with 6 Whirlwind HAS.7s, after working up, it embarked in Sep 1962 for the Far East on HMS Albion (R07). The Squadron operated in Aden and Brunei then joined HMS Bulwark (R08) for Singapore, where it disbanded in Oct 1964. In Autumn 1968 the squadron was reformed at RNAS Culdrose with 5 Wessex HU.5 flying at various times from HMS Albion, HMS Bulwark and HMS Hermes (R12), including the first cold weather arctic trials in Norway during 1969.  |
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