817 Naval Air Squadron

817 Naval Air Squadron
817 Naval Air Squadron
	Squadron badge
Active	1941–1943; 1943–1945; 1945;
Disbanded	23 August 1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Royal Navy
Type	Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance squadron
Role	Carrier-based: anti-submarine warfare (ASW); anti-surface warfare (ASuW); Close air support (CAS);
Part of	Fleet Air Arm
Home station	See Naval air stations section for full list.
Mottos	Facere animo; (Latin for 'To act with spirit or courage')
Engagements	World War II European War Tirpitz; ; Mediterranean War Operation Torch; Operation Husky; ; Pacific War Operation Millet; ;
Battle honours	Norway 1941; Biscay 1942; North Africa 1942; Atlantic 1942; Sicily 1943; East Indies 1944;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Lieutenant Commander D. Sanderson, DSC, RN
Insignia
Squadron Badge Description	Blue, a shark haurient embowed proper pierced by an arrowed red flighted gold in bend sinister (1952)
Identification Markings	5A+ (Albacore); 5A+ (Barracuda); 3A+ (Barracuda in Indomitable July 1944); 7A+ (Barracuda April 1945);
Aircraft flown
Bomber	Fairey Albacore; Fairey Barracuda;

817 Naval Air Squadron was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN) during the Second World War. The Squadron was last active within the Royal Navy between 1943 and 1945 with Fairey Barracuda aircraft and carried out operations in the Far East before disbanding at the end of the war.

It initially formed in 1941 and the squadron operated Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber aircraft in the Anti-Submarine Warfare role in Icelandic and Mediterranean waters.

The squadron was reformed as 817 Squadron RAN in 1950.