776 Naval Air Squadron
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776 Naval Air Squadron (776 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm which last disbanded at the end of October 1945. 776 Naval Air Squadron formed as a Fleet Requirements Unit at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, at the start of 1941. It operated a detachment at RN Air Section Speke in 1941 and one at RAF Woodvale in 1942, with the squadron wholly moving to Speke in the October. 1943 saw further detachments and these were deployed at RAF Llanbedr, RAF Millom, RAF Usworth and RAF Waltham. In April 1945, the Woodvale detachment was reabsorbed into the squadron when it relocated there, the airbase now operated by the Admiralty and known as HMS Ringtail II. It moved to HMS Ringtail, RNAS, Burscough, at the start of October 1945.
776 Naval Air Squadron | |
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Active | 1 January 1941 - 30 October 1945[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Navy |
Type | Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron |
Role | Fleet Requirements Unit |
Size | Squadron |
Part of | Fleet Air Arm |
Last airbase | RNAS Burscough (HMS Ringtail) |
Insignia | |
Squadron Badge | Per fess wavy gold and black, a cormorant statant wings addorsed proper collared to a line reflexed over the back red and attached to a drogue also red (1944)[2] |
Identification Markings | single letters initially V9A+ (Woodvale detachment) R7A+ & R8A+ (1942)[3][2] |