24 May 1939 - 27 March 1944 1 June 1944 - 12 March 1945[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Royal Navy
Type
Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron
Role
Observer Training Squadron
Air Gunner Training Squadron
Size
Squadron
Part of
Fleet Air Arm
Commanders
Notable commanders
Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde, VC, DSO
Insignia
Identification Markings
W5A+ A5A+later[2] single lettersSwordfish[3]
Military unit
Westland Lysander III, similar to the TT type used by 754 NAS
754 Naval Air Squadron (754 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was active as an Observer Training Squadron from 1939 to 1944 as part of No. 2 Observer School, forming out of the School of Naval Co-operation RAF, in May 1939. It initially operated out of HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, however, after the Naval Air Station was attacked and bombed, it then moved to north to HMS Condor, RNAS Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, in September 1940. Here, it provided training for Observers and also Air Gunners and where four years later, in March 1944, it disbanded. The squadron then briefly reformed as a Air Gunner Training Squadron, as part of No. 1 Naval Air Gunners School, when 744 Naval Air Squadron was re-designated 754 Naval Air Squadron, in June 1944, at RN Air Section Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, until disbanding again, in March 1945.[2]
^Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 74.
^ abWragg 2019, p. 124.
^Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 57.
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