852 Naval Air Squadron

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History 
1. November 1943 852 NAS formed at NAS Sqantum, MA, USA
17. October 1944 852 NAS disbanded at RNAS
 
Planes:
 

 

 

 Nov 1943 - Oct 1944
Avenger I		  
 

 

 

 May 1944 - Oct 1944
Wildcat V & VI		  

 

 
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852 NAS Deployments 
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852 NAS Commanding Officers 
Lt-Cdr (A) R. E. Bradshaw, DSC, RN 1. Nov 1943 17. Oct 1944

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History 

In November 1943, the squadron formed at NAS Squantum as a torpedo bomber reconnaissance Avenger squadron, and subsequently embarked on HMS Nabob in February 1944, disembarking at Machrihanish in April 1944.
In May 1944 a fighter flight of 4 Wildcat Vs was added, and in the following month the squadron embarked on HMS Nabob for operations off Norway. July was spent at RNAS Abbotsinch and RAF Machrihanish before re-embarking on HMS Nabob in the middle of the month again for Norway operations. However on 22 August 1944 HMS Nabob was badly damaged by a torpedo from U-354, and on its return to Scapa Flow the squadron was transferred to HMS Trumpeter.
The squadron was finally disbanded in October 1944.

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last update 1. Februay 2013

written 1. March 2011

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