On board Formidable, Orr's squadron provided the fighter cover for her Fairey Albacores and Fairey Swordfish during the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941 and the bombing of Tripoli [REF].
On his return, Orr feared he would be grounded but in August 1943 he was given a new command-804 Naval Air Squadron, which at the time was land based at Eglinton in Northern Ireland and equipped with the Grumman Hellcat [REF].