Battle Honours

Thirty Battle Honours were awarded to Royal Navy Naval Air Squadrons for actions and campaigns during the Second World War, perhaps the most renown being for the Taranto strike, the Norwegian campaigns of 1940 and against the Tirpitz, the Battle of the Atlantic and the sinking of the Bismarck, and the operations against the Japanese most notably at Palembang, Okinawa and Tokyo.

NAVAL AIR SQUADRON AND AIRCRAFT CARRIER BATTLE HONOURS
Atlantic 1939-45	English Channel 1939-45	North Sea 1939-45	River Plate 1939
Biscay 1940-45	Norway 1940-45	Libya 1940-42	Mediterranean 1940-45
Narvik 1940	Dunkirk 1940	Battle of Britain 1940	Calabria 1940
Taranto 1940	Spartivento 1940	Crete 1941	'Bismarck' 1941
Malta Convoys 1941-42	Matapan 1941	Diego Suarez 1942	North Africa 1942-43
Arctic 1941-45	Malaya 1942-45	Aegean 1944	Normandy 1944
Sicily 1943	Salerno 1943	Burma 1944-45	Palembang 1945
Sabang 1944	South France 1944	Okinawa 1945	Japan 1945