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The Squadron also trained more than one hundred and fifty helicopter maintainers annually before sending them to the front line. Aircrew and maintainers received military and amphibious training and were taught how to operate in the field and from the deck of a ship.
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As the gulf crisis loomed, 848 Squadron was recalled, reforming with the Sea King HC4 on 16 November 1990 and went on to serve in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After the conflict it returned to the UK and was disbanded again on 19 April 1991.
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During its 69-year history, 848 Squadron had been disbanded and reformed several times but had a more permanent standing, having been made the Commando Helicopter Training Squadron, based at
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With a complement of one hundred ratings and thirty officers, the Squadron was responsible for the instruction of up to sixty pilots and aircrewmen each year. Operating the
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The Squadron restarted again in March 1995 took the role from 707 NAS which was responsible for the training of aircrew and maintainers in the Commando role.
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HC.4, pilots undertook Advanced Flying Training - how to handle emergencies and how to fly with sole reference to instruments - before crewing up with the
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in early 1960 and deployed to the Far East for two and a half years - when the ship was in Singapore the squadron detached to the shore base HMS
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between 1944 and 1945, 848 Squadron provided air support for the western flank of the Normandy landings and the invasion of Okinawa (
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848 NAS disbanded in 2013. It reformed on 1 May 2015 as an operational Sea King HC.4 squadron; this was to allow
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The squadron was officially formed in June 1943 as a torpedo bomber, reconnaissance, Avenger squadron at
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and previously provided advanced flying training to pilots for the other squadrons in the
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HAS.21s for work in Malaya. 848 Squadron 26 whirlwind MK 7 aircraft joined
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Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Falklands War
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The squadron operated a variety of different aircraft and versions:
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to convert to the Merlin without a loss of operational capability.
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848 reformed at RNAS Culdrose on 7 May 1964 with 18
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