Lancasters with Avro Shackletons. It flew in support of the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt in 1956 (the Suez Crisis), and in July 1957 the squadron moved to RAF Khormaksar in Aden, for patrols over the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, with a secondary role of air support, including bombing fortified positions and strafing using the Shackleton's nose-mounted guns in counterinsurgency operations during the Aden Emergency. A detachment was based at Bahrain in an attempt to stop gun running from Oman. In 1961 the squadron flew in support of Operation Vantage, the British response to Iraqi threats against Kuwait, and from 1966, as a result of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, supplied regular detachments to Mahajanga in Madagascar as part of the Beira Patrol, a British blockade of ships carrying oil to Rhodesia via Mozambique. The squadron disbanded at Khormaksar on 7 September 1967. The colours of 37 Squadron are in All Saints' Church, Stamford. See also London Air Defence Area References External links History of No. 37 Squadron Aden Veterans page 037 Squadron 037 Squadron Military units and formations established in 1916 Military units and formations disestablished in 1965 1916 establishments in the United Kingdom Military units and formations in Mandatory Palestine in World War II