Tenax propositi (Latin for 'Steadfast of purpose')
Engagements
World War II
Pacific War
Air raids on Japan
Battle honours
Japan 1945
Insignia
Squadron Badge Description
Per fess red and blue, a bow strung full draught in pale white with an arrow winged and flighted point downwards wings interlaced all gold (1944)[2]
Identification Markings
single letters[3] 4A+ (October 1943) 270-281 (June 1945)[2]
Tail Codes
S (June 1945)
Aircraft flown
Fighter
Fairey Firefly
Military unit
Fairey Firefly, an example of the type used by 1772 NAS
1772 Naval Air Squadron (1772 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA), which last disbanded, at Portsmouth, in March 1946. The squadron formed at HMS Ringtail, RNAS Burscough as a Fighter Squadron during May 1944. It joined HMS Ruler for passage to Australia leaving January 1945 and disembarking at HMS Nabstock, RNAS Schofields, mid-March. The squadron embarked in HMS Indefatigable in July, joining the British Pacific Fleet for attacks againgst the Japanese home islands. After the end of the Second World War it dropped supplies on PoW camps.
^Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 339.
^ abBallance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 278.
^Wragg 2019, p. 190.
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