Its role was to intercept unidentified and hostile aircraft, ships and submarines in the Brisbane area.

While it responded to numerous reports of potentially hostile activity it did not sight any Japanese submarines or aircraft.

[2] The squadron began to be re-equipped with Australian designed and built Boomerang fighters in June and the Airacobras were withdrawn in September.

[4] The squadron was subsequently deployed to Melville Island in December and remained there until January 1944, when it made a further move to RAAF Airfield Gove on the mainland.

[6] The squadron left the Northern Territory in mid-1944, and arrived at Camden, New South Wales in August where it continued operations with its Boomerangs.

83 Squadron was re-raised on 1 January 2021 from the Distributed Ground Station Australia unit that had formed part of No.