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Awarded:<\/strong> April 1945 (BR359)<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of two Arrows in saltire points upwards Gules tipped and flighted Or a decorated Velvet Glove Sable.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The idea of an iron hand in a velvet glove is conveyed by part of the badge whilst speed in action is conveyed by the arrows.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Suavitor in modo fortiter in re<\/em> – Agreeable in manner, forcible in act.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed West Raynham 13 September 1942 renumbered No 69 Sqn 31 March 1946.<\/p>\n Commissioned by the 2nd Tactical Air Force Medium Bombers Association and dedicated to those of our comrades who laid down their lives that we may be free.<\/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: April 1945 (BR359) Blazon: In front of two Arrows in saltire points upwards Gules tipped and flighted Or a decorated Velvet Glove Sable. Link: The idea of an iron hand in a velvet glove is conveyed by part of the badge whilst speed in action is conveyed by the arrows. Motto: Latin: Suavitor in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":587,"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\/2895"}],"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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}