Get hold of a copy of Lewis Cooper's 'The Hornet File' (ISBN 0 85130 202 5). It is the definitive work on Hornets/Sea Hornets and the Squadrons which operated them. Combat? RAF Hornets saw plenty of action during the Malayan campaign. Many were scrapped in the Far East. Such a shame that not a single complete example of a Hornet or Sea Hornet still exists.