838 Naval Air Squadron

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838 Naval Air Squadron
Active1942–1943
1943–1945
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Navy
Part ofFleet Air Arm

838 Naval Air Squadron (838 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.[1]

They had formed and worked-up at RN Air Section Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on 15 May 1942, and had flown across country to San Francisco, thirty-five and a half hours' flying time in a journey spread over seven and a half days.[2]

References

  1. ^ "838 Squadron". Fleet Air Arm Archive. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "A History of HMS Attacker". Royal Navy Research Archive. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.