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Awarded:<\/strong> September 1945<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Spartan Shield Or<\/p>\n Link<\/strong>: This squadron carried out many operations in the Eastern Mediterranean which helped in the ultimate liberation of Greece. The Spartan Mother’s farewell to her is considered an appropriate motto<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: With or on<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed from Nos 495, 507, 508 & 509 Flights at RNAS Tynemouth in May 1918 disbanding on 30 June 1919. Re-formed as the first coastal Beaufighter squadron at Bircham Newton on 21 November 1940 finally disbanding at Araxos, Greece on 1 December 1946<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served on No 252 Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: September 1945 Blazon: A Spartan Shield Or Link: This squadron carried out many operations in the Eastern Mediterranean which helped in the ultimate liberation of Greece. The Spartan Mother’s farewell to her is considered an appropriate motto Motto: With or on History: Formed from Nos 495, 507, 508 & 509 Flights at RNAS Tynemouth […]<\/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\/3921"}],"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=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}