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Awarded<\/strong>: December 1938 (BR42)<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: In front of a Terrestrial Globe Azure\/Argent the figure of Perseus Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> Perseus is symbolic of achieving the desired object with the available tools as well as a reference to the Perseus Engine which \u00a0 the squadron was the first to use. The globe indicates world-wide activities.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Fortiter in re<\/em> – Bravely in action.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Filton 1 April 1916<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 42 Squadron.<\/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>: 1. Western Front 1916-18. 2. Italian Front & Adriatic 1917-18. 3. Channel & North Sea 1939-42. \u00a0 4. Biscay 1940. 5. Baltic 1941. 6. Eastern Waters 1943. 7. Arakan 1943-44. 8. Manipur 1944. 9. Somme 1916. 10. Arras 1917. 11. Ypres 1917. 12. Lys. 13. Fortress Europe 1941. 14. Pacific 1943-45. 15. Burma 1944-45.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: December 1938 (BR42) Blazon: In front of a Terrestrial Globe Azure\/Argent the figure of Perseus Or. Link: Perseus is symbolic of achieving the desired object with the available tools as well as a reference to the Perseus Engine which \u00a0 the squadron was the first to use. The globe indicates world-wide activities. Motto: Latin: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313,"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\/3179"}],"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=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}