Throughout the winter, using the carrier and HMS Nabbington, RNAS Nowra, Australia as a shore base, the squadron targeted locations in Sumatra, including Palembang, before shifting focus to Sakashima Gunto and Formosa in the spring.

[1][2] The squadron was officially established on 1 April in RN Air Section Squantum, which was situated at Naval Air Station Squantum, Quincy, Massachusetts, designated as a Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance unit, equipped with twelve Grumman Avenger Mk.II torpedo bomber aircraft, which embarked aboard the escort carrier HMS Rajah on 29 June.

On 13 July, the squadron disembarked to RNAMY Belfast (HMS Gadwall), County Antrim, Northern Ireland and subsequently received an additional nine Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber aircraft and the squadron were prepared for anti-submarine warfare training at RNAS Machrihanish (HMS Landrail), Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

[4] During the remainder of the winter season, the squadron utilised the aircraft carrier and the MONAB HMS Nabbington, at Nowra, Australia, as a shore base of operations to conduct assaults on various targets in Sumatra, such as Belawan Deli, Pangkalan Brandan, and Palembang.

Subsequently, in the spring, the squadron shifted its focus to targets located in the Sakashima Gunto, in the East China Sea and Formosa regions.

[1] Following the conclusion of World War II, specifically after Victory over Japan Day, the squadron redeployed to the Far East to engage in operations targeting Japanese suicide boats in the vicinity of Hong Kong on the dates of 31 August and 1 September.

The squadron commenced maritime security operations off the Horn of Africa aboard RFA Fort Austin in February 2007, with aims of denying the passage of the seas to Al Qaeda, pirates, traffickers and smugglers.

[5] The squadron carried out operations in the North Sea on board HMS Illustrious, testing airborne early warning capabilities.