701 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron that saw service during the Second World War.

The 700 numbers were appended to training and ancillary squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm. The grouping 700 to 749 had originally included catapult flights. These later became catapult squadrons. By 1943 series 700 to 710 were briefly allocated to floatplane squadrons.^[1] 701 Squadron saw action in the Norwegian campaign in mid-1941, and in May six Supermarine Walrus aircraft of the squadron were flown off HMS Glorious to support operations off Harstad.^[2] In June 1940 the squadron briefly appeared on HMS Ark Royal.,^[3] and the squadron was at Reykjav k in October 1940, when they were taken onboard HMS Argus.^[4]

By July 1943, the squadron was attached to No. 201 Group RAF for the invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky).

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References

• 700-795 Naval Air Squadron Index

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