1853 Naval Air Squadron

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History 

1. April 1945 1853 NAS formed at NAS Brunswick ME, USA
15. August 1945 1853 NAS disbanded at RNAS Marhrihanish
 
Planes:
  Apr 1945 - Aug 1945
Corsair IV
(18)
5 5  
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1853 NAS Deployments 

24. July 1945 - 6. August 1945

HMS Rajah

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Corsair IV

VII

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1853 NAS Home Port Assignments
NAS Brunswick ME. USA 1. Apr. 1945 24. July 1945
RNAS Machrihanish, Argyll & Bute 6. August 1945 15. August 1945
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1853 NAS Commanding Officers 

Lt-Cdr J. R. Schuiling, RNethN

1. Apr. 1945 15. Aug. 1945
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History 

1853 NAS personnel assembled at NAD Townhill Camp on 23 Februry 1945, and after passage to the USA formed officially at NAS Bruswick, Maine on 1. April 1945 as a single sater fighter squadron. Equipped with 18 Corsair IVs it embarked in HMS Rajah for the UK in July 1945, but plans for it to ioin a 4th Carrier Air Group in HMS Illustrious were cancelled, and it disbanded at RNAS Machrihanish on VJ-Day, 15. August 1945.

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last update 12. August 2017

written 1. March 2011

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