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Awarded:<\/strong> January 1944<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Mullet Gules a Dagger erect Argent.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The unit served in Russia, represented by the red star, in 1941 before providing fighter cover in North Africa in 1943 for the 1st<\/sup> Army symbolised by the dagger.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Non solum nobis<\/em> – Not for us alone.<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed at Gosport on 7 January 1917 and finally disbanded at Tengah on 16 January 1970.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 81 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. France & Low Countries 1939-40. 2. Russia 1941. 3. Fortress Europe 1942. 4. Dieppe. 5. North Africa 1942-43. 6. Sicily 1943. 7. Salerno. 8. Burma 1944. 9. Home Defence 1942. 10. Channel & North Sea 1942. 11. Mediterranean 1943. 12. Italy 1943. 13. Arakan 1944. 14. North Burma 1944. 15 Manipur 1944<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: January 1944 Blazon: In front of a Mullet Gules a Dagger erect Argent. Link: The unit served in Russia, represented by the red star, in 1941 before providing fighter cover in North Africa in 1943 for the 1st Army symbolised by the dagger. Motto: Latin: Non solum nobis – Not for us alone. History: […]<\/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\/3421"}],"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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}