History 

History 

1943 - 1945
1830 NAS personnel assembled at RNAS Lee-on-Solent on 1. April 1943 and embarked for the USA, disembarking to NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island on 7. May, where it officially formed on 1. June 1943 as a single seater fighter squadron. Equipped with 10 Corsair Is for work-up, these gave way in August to 10 Corsair IIs, which in October embarked in HMS Slinger for passage to the UK. In December the strenght was increased to fourteen aircraft by absorbing part of 1831 NAS, and 1830 NAS then became part of the 15th Naval Fighter Wing. The following month it joined HMS Illustrious for work-up in the Clyde, sailing in late January 1944 for Ceylon, from where as part of the Eastem Fleet a three day sweep was carried out in the Bay of Bengal in March 1944. In April attacks were made on shore installations and shipping at Sabang, and the next month similar operations were carried out at Sourabaya. The Andanan Islands were attacked in June, followed by futher Operations at Sabang in July 1944.
In August the HMS Illustrious sailed to Durban to reflt, and 1830 NAS increased its strength to 18 aircraft. By December the ship was back in action, and 1830 NAS participated in attacks on oil refineries in Sumatra in December 1944 and January 1945, following vwich the ship joined the British Pacific Fleet. Intensive operations were carried out in March and April against the Sakishima Gunto group of islands in the East China Seas but, after being damaged from a near miss by a Kamikaze, the ship pulled out of the line on 14. April and returned with 1830 NAS to the UK. were the squadron was to have regrouped with new Corsairs before returing to the British Pacific Fleet as part of the 6th Carrier Air Group, but instead it disbanded on arrival in the UK on 28. July 1945.