By CMDR (P) R. V. Morritt, RAN Rtd CALL THE HANDS OCCASIONAL PAPER 45 Issue No. 27 February 2019 The Fairey Gannet A/S 1 aircraft was...

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The 808 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier based squadron formed in July 1940. It served on a number of the Navy's...

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723 Squadron formed in Britain on 21 November 1944 and embarked for Australia the following month, arriving on 28 February 1945. It was...