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No. 77 Squadron pilots and Meteor aircraft in Korea

No. 77 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force fighter squadron. The squadron was first formed in 1942 and currently operates F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from RAAF Base Williamtown. No. 77 Squadron first saw combat over Darwin and operated in the ground attack and escort roles over New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Netherlands East Indies and Borneo. Following World War II the squadron formed part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, and served over Korea throughout the Korean War. No. 77 Squadron was based in Malaya from 1958 to 1969 and took part in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. A detachment from No.77 Squadron provided air defence to Diego Garcia during the US-led liberation of Afghanistan and later deployed to the Middle East in 2015–2016 to undertake operations against ISIL.