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Awarded:<\/strong> May 1945 (BR358)<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: A demi-Lion Or erased holding a Flash of Lightning Azure<\/p>\n Link<\/strong>: The squadron operated in North Africa, Sicily and Southern Europe. The Lion is symbolic of Africa and the offensive spirit of the unit and the flash of lightning its striking power<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Irae emissarii<\/em> \u2013 Emissaries of wrath<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Shandur on 15 January 1943 Disbanded at Fayid on 15 April 1946<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 178 Squadron<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Battle Honours<\/strong>: No Standard<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: May 1945 (BR358) Blazon: A demi-Lion Or erased holding a Flash of Lightning Azure Link: The squadron operated in North Africa, Sicily and Southern Europe. The Lion is symbolic of Africa and the offensive spirit of the unit and the flash of lightning its striking power Motto: Latin: Irae emissarii \u2013 Emissaries of wrath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}