Grumman Hellcats of 808 Naval Air Squadron
808 NAS was re-equipped with 24 Hellcat Is and IIs in October 1944 having previously operated Supermarine Seafire L.III fighters. Assigned to the British Eastern Fleet in January 1945, it embarked aboard the escort carrier HMS Khedive. While part of the Eastern Fleet, the squadron operated off Malaya and Sumatra, with periods spent flying off HMS Emperor. They covered the re-occupation of Rangoon in Operation Dracula in May, carried out attacks against Japanese airfields in Sumatra in June and covered the re-occupation of Malaya after the Surrender of Japan; the squadron was disbanded at the end of the war.
