{"id":3077,"date":"2016-06-09T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2016-06-09T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:18:48","slug":"20-sqn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/20-sqn\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Sqn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awarded<\/strong>: June 1937 (BR20)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon<\/strong>: In front of a Rising Sun Or an Eagle wings elevated Sable perched on a Sword Argent hilted Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong>: The rising sun indicates the unit\u2019s long association with the East.The eagle perched on a sword in the shape of a Talvar symbolizes the Squadron\u2019s long association with the Army in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto<\/strong>: (Latin) <em>Facta non verba<\/em> &#8211; Deeds not words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong>: Formed at Netheravon 1 September 1915 and became a Reserve Sqn on 1 September 1992.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sponsored by Flt Lt Norman J Robinson RAF (Rtd) in Memory of all aircrew who lost their lives during WW I, WW II and the Gulf\u00a0 War.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battle Honours:<\/strong> 1.Somme 1916. 2.Arras. 3.Ypres 1917. 4.Somme 1918. 5.North Burma 1943-44\u00a0 6. Arakan 1943-44\u00a0 7.Manipur 1944. 8.Burma 1944-45. 9.Western Front 1916-18. 10.Lys. 11.Hindenburg Line. 12 Gulf 1991.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: June 1937 (BR20) Blazon: In front of a Rising Sun Or an Eagle wings elevated Sable perched on a Sword Argent hilted Or Link: The rising sun indicates the unit\u2019s long association with the East.The eagle perched on a sword in the shape of a Talvar symbolizes the Squadron\u2019s long association with the Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269,"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\/3077"}],"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=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}