24 May 1939 - 15 August 1939 6 March 1941 - 1 December 1942 1 October 1943 - 24 November 1945[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Royal Navy
Type
Fleet Air Arm Second Line Squadron
Role
Telegraphist Air Gunner Training Squadron
Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance
Size
Squadron
Part of
Fleet Air Arm
Insignia
Identification Markings
X3A+Proctor single lettersAlbacore KA+Barracuda & Swordfish K1A+Avenger[2]
Military unit
Percival Proctor, of the type used by 756 NAS
756 Naval Air Squadron (756 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was initially formed as a Telegraphist Air Gunner Training Squadron, operating from May to August 1939, out of RNAS Worthy Down (HMS Kestrel), in Hampshire, England. It was later reformed again as a Telegraphist Air Gunner Training Squadron, operating from March 1941, out of RNAS Worthy Down (HMS Kestrel). TAG training was provided until the No. 2 School was ready in Canada, opening on 1 January 1943, and 756 Naval Air Squadron disbanded in December 1942. The squadron reformed at RNAS Katukurunda (HMS Ukussa), in Sri Lanka, in October 1943, as a Torpedo, Bomber, Reconnaissance pool. During 1944 and 1945, the squadron undertook a number of detachmemts on different types of Royal Navy aircraft carriers, then disbanding in December 1945.
^Sturtivant, Ballance 1994, p. 75.
^Wragg 2019, p. 125.
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