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1946
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FLIGHT JUNE 2OTH, 1945 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Air Arm News and Announcements Portsmouth Fly'past FIVE Naval squadrons and oneR.A.F. squadron took part in the King's Birthday parade at SouthseaCommon, Portsmouth, on June 13th; Of the squadrons taking part, No. 811(Mosquito), 813 (Firebrand), and 816 (Firefly) from the Royal Navy and No.248 (Mosquito) from the R.A.F. also took part in the Victory Day fly-past.The additional squadrons were No. 805 (Seafire XV), CO. Lt. Cdr. P. G.Hulton, D.S.C., and No. 807 (Seafire XVII), Lt. Cdr. S. J. Hall, D.S.C. The squadrons formed up over theirbases and, led by No. 816 Fireflies from Lee-on-Solent, took up squadrons inline astern formation over Chichester. From the same station followed 805 and807 squadrons, then 811 and 813 from Ford, and finally 248 from ThorneyIsland. They flew round the Isle of Wight at 200 kt. at about 2,000 feet,making turns to starboard, and were led north from the island, round Southamp-ton until, losing height to 300ft., they flew past the saluting base on SouthseaCommon at 1208 hrs. The Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force andRoyal Australian Navy took part in the parade, and the salute was taken byAdmiral Sir Geoffrey Lay ton. A Royal Salute was fired. As the aircraft returned to base,thanks and congratulations on their flying were received from the controllingground radio station. Unlike most R.A.F. Mosquito squad-rons, No. 811 Naval Squadron (CO. Lt. Cdr. S. M. P. Walsh, D.S.O.,D.S.C.) flies its Mosquito Vis off in formation (three vies of three) andlands on in rapid succession, landing times averaging 1 min 30 sec for nineaircraft. King's Birthday at Singapore R.A.F. Regiment and two squadronsof aircraft were among those taking part in the King's Birthday parade atSingapore on June 13th. No. 1326 Wing of the R.A.F. Regiment, whichfought through the second Burma cam- paign, paraded with its band. No. 28Spitfire Squadron, the only Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron to operatethroughout the Burma campaign, led the fly-past under the command of Fit.Lt. P. Wickham, D.S.O., D.F.C. FOR VICTORY CELE- BRATIONS : H.M.S.Triumph, one of our newest aircraft carriers,entering Southampton Docks to be on show.On the centre line of the flight deck fromstem to stern are a de Havilland Vampire andHornet, a Fairey Fire- fly, a SupermarineSeafire and a Fairey Barracuda. No. 84 Mosquito Squadron, which willbe remembered for its part in the fight- ing in Sumatra in 1942, also took partin the fly-past. The Salute was taken by Air MarshalSir George Pirie, K.B.E., C.B., M.C, D.F.C., the Air C.-in-C Australian Rocket-Range A FORMAL agreement has beenreached between Britain and Australia regarding the establishment ofa permanent rocket-testing station in Australia. Although location of the site has notyet been decided, preliminary investiga- tions have confirmed that conditions forsuch a range exist. Lt. Gen. Evetts, head of the mission which is in Australiato demonstrate recent rocket develop- ments and to arrange a testing site,stated that he was satisfied that the Mount Eba region, in north-westernSouth Australia, was most suitable for long-range tests. ~No. 26 Squadron in BerlinN O 26 Squadron is the latest Tempestsquadron to take up duty at R.A.F. Station, Gatow, Berlin. They havetaken over from No. 3 Fighter Squadron which left for England to take part in theVictory Day fly-past. Commanded by Sqn. Ldr. H. Ambrose,D.F.C. and Bar, No. 26 Squadron has only recently been re-formed and re-equipped with Tempest aircraft. The squadron was originally formedduring the Great War, 1914-18, and served in the South West African cam-paign. Its Afrikaan's motto " 'N Wag- ter In Die Lug" (The Watcher in theSky) originated from this area of»opera- tions. At the outbreak of the last war, No. "JmSquadron was equipped with LysandtJvl and accompanied the B.E.F. to France,and then, from a base in Kent, assisted in the Dunkirk evacuation.Towards the end of 1940 the Squadron moved to Gatwick, Surrey, and made itshome there for two years, where it was re-equipped with Tomahawks and began,low level strafing attacks and photo- graphic sorties over Northern France. No. 26 Squadron was the first to beequipped with Mustangs in 1942. After doing a number of shipping"recce's" off the Dutch coast and some night intruder operations over Fran' >and Belgium the squadron was re- equipped with Spitfires and startedtraining for its special task of spotting for naval guns during the invasion. During Christmas, 1944, No. 26 wa. Continued on page 636)
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