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857 Naval Air Squadron — Wikipedia (en)

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857 Naval Air Squadron (857 NAS), also known as 857 Squadron, is an inactive Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). It most recently operated the Westland Sea King ASaC.7 Airborne Early Warning helicopter between December 2006 and January 2015, based out of RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall. It was established at Squantum in the United States as a Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance squadron in April 1944. It boarded HMS Rajah in June, landed in HMS Gadwall, RNAMY Belfast, Northern Ireland, in July, with anti-submarine training at HMS Landrail, RNAS Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The squadron re-embarked in September for Ceylon, spending time on land at HMS Garuda, RNARY Coimbatore, India and HMS Ukussa, RNAS Katukurunda, Ceylon, before boarding HMS Indomitable in November. Throughout the winter, using the carrier and HMS Nabbington, RNAS Nowra, Australia as a shore base, the squadron targeted locations in Sumatra, including Palembang, before shifting focus to Sakashima Gunto and Formosa in the spring. The squadron returned to the Far East after VJ-Day to engage Japanese suicide boats off Hong Kong. After leaving its aircraft in Australia, the squadron returned home and was disbanded in November 1945. 857 Naval Air Squadron reformed at Culdrose from 849 Naval Air Squadron 'B' Flight in December 2006, conducting maritime security operations in February 2007 off the Horn of Africa, a section of the squadron returning early to the UK to embark in HMS Illustrious for a trip to the United States. The squadron deployed in the Indian Ocean in March 2008 and deployed to Afghanistan in October 2009, for surveillance operations in support of coalition forces and helping to combat the flow of drugs and IEDs around Helmand Province. The squadron again deployed to Camp Bastion in July for a further five months. Due to return to Afghanistan in 2011, the squadron instead embarked in HMS Ocean in May and saw operational service off Libya. It relieved 854 Naval Air Squadron at Camp Bastion in February 2012. After a final deployment on Operation Kipion towards the end of 2014, the squadron disbanded in January 2015, becoming 849 Naval Air Squadron "Palembang Flight".

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