| HMS Fencer was USA built at the Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco, being laid down on 5 September 1941, and launched April 1942. She was bought by the USN on 20 February 1943 as USS AVG-14 and commissioned in the Royal Navy on 20 February 1943.
HMS Fencer was essentially a "Fighter Carrier" from 1943. She also provided convoy escort in 1944, during which time her aircraft (842 squadron) sank the German submarines U666 on 10 February 1944, U277 on 1 May 1944, U674 and U.959 on 2 May 1944. She also provided cover for Barracuda strike aircraft during the Operation "Tungsten", attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz in Norway on 3 April 1944. Later she saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 as escort for the Fleet Train.
HMS Fencer was returned to the USN on 11 December 1946. Scrapped 1975.
1832 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy,
The squadron formed at Eglington in August 1943 as a fighter squadron with 10 Wildcat Vs, transferring to Stretton to form fighter flights to join TBR squadrons on escort carriers. In November 1943 the first fighter flights were formed for 842 squadron on HMS Fencer.
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
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