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Awarded<\/strong>: December 1937<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Goose Volant Gules beaked and legged Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> A goose in Latin is \u201cAnser\u201d which is used as a play on the word Anson \u2013 the type of aircraft with which the unit was equipped. The goose is a fast day and night flyer, flying in a \u2018V\u2019 formation as a protective measure. Also as it is a heavy bird it was thought suitable to represent a bomber unit.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Swift and Sure.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Thetford 15 May 1916.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Wg Cdr David R Paton BA RAF, Officer Commanding 51 Sqn \u2013 January 1999 to June 2001. Dedicated to all members of 51 Squadron \u2013 past, present and future.<\/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.Home Defence 1916-18. 2. Norway 1940. 3.France & Low Countries 1940, 4.\u00a0 Ruhr 1940-45. 5. Fortress Europe 1940-44. 6. Baltic 1940-44. 7. Italy 1943. 8. France & Germany 1944-45. 9. Channel & North Sea 1940-43. 10. German Ports 1940-45. 11. Invasion Ports 1940. 12. Biscay Ports 1940-44. 13. Berlin 1940-44. 14. Biscay 1942. 15. Normandy 1944. 16. Walcheren. 17. Rhine.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: December 1937 Blazon: A Goose Volant Gules beaked and legged Or. Link: A goose in Latin is \u201cAnser\u201d which is used as a play on the word Anson \u2013 the type of aircraft with which the unit was equipped. The goose is a fast day and night flyer, flying in a \u2018V\u2019 formation as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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\/3223"}],"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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}