881 Naval Air Squadron (original) (raw)

881 Naval Air Squadron (881 NAS) was a squadron of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm formed in June 1941. It served as a fighter squadron in the Second World War, taking part in the British invasion of Madagascar in 1942, in the Allied invasions of Northern France and Southern France in 1944, also taking part in operations in the Aegean Sea and off Norway before disbanding in October 1945. The squadron was reformed in May 1951 as a carrier-based anti-submarine squadron in the Royal Canadian Navy. It was redesignated VS 881, in 1952 and was disbanded in 1959.