880 Naval Air Squadron
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880 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft carrier-based squadron formed in January 1941. The squadron served throughout the Second World War being embarked in the carriers HMS Fur
880 NAS badge
Seafires of 880 and 801 Squadrons aboard HMS Implacable in 1945. Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers are ranged at the aft end of the ship's flight deck
A VS 880 Tracker aboard HMCS Bonaventure in 1966
Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk Ib (Royal Navy code 7-L and Z7015), in the Fleet Air Arm colours of 880 squadron
Operation Inmate
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Operation Inmate was an attack by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese positions on Truk Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean during the Second World War. The attacks against the isolated islands
Shells from a British Pacific Fleet cruiser falling on Japanese oil tanks at Truk during the 15 June 1945 bombardment
HMS Implacable arriving at Sydney on 8 May 1945
Rockets being fired from a Firefly at the radio station on Moen island
HMS Implacable (at back right) and Victorious viewed from Formidable on 10 July 1945