777 Naval Air Squadron
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777 Naval Air Squadron (777 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, which formed as a Fleet Requirements Unit in West Africa during the Second World War.[4] Throughout most of 1943, the squadron was responsible for the air defence of Sierra Leone. It disbanded at HMS Spurwing, RNAS Hastings, Sierra Leone, during December 1944. The squadron reformed in May 1945, from 'B' Flight of 778 Naval Air Squadron, as a Carrier Trials Unit operating aboard HMS Pretoria Castle, and using shore bases at HMS Siskin, RNAS Gosport, and HMS Peregrine, RNAS Ford in England, and HMS Wagtail, RNAS Ayr, in Scotland. 777 Naval Air Squadron number was assigned to the aircraft collection at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in April 2006.
777 Naval Air Squadron | |
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Active | 1 August 1941 – 25 December 1944 23 May 1945 – 3 January 1946[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Navy |
Type | Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron |
Role |
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Size | Squadron |
Part of | Fleet Air Arm |
Motto(s) | Expertam docemus arter (Latin for 'We teach the art which we have gained by experiment')[2] |
Insignia | |
Squadron Badge | Blue, over a base barry way of four white and blue an eagle displayed gold armed and langued red gorged with a mural crown red grasping in each talon a trident point downward whte (1945)[2] |
Identification Markings | No markings or single letters (1941 - 1944) SA+ Defiants single letters (1945 - 1946)[3][2] |