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Awarded<\/strong>: September 1941<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Raven wings endorsed and inverted Sable detailed Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> In view of the squadron’s associations with northern waters it adopted a raven which is reputed to be a symbol of the Vikings<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Norse: Fljuga vakta ok ljosta<\/em> \u2013 To fly, to watch and to strike<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed in May 1918 from 492, 517 & 518 Flights at Prawle Point, disbanding on 22 February 1919. Re-formed at Stradishall on 30 October 1939 and was re-numbered No 42 Squadron at Thorney Island on 6 May 1946. It re-formed once more at Melton Mowbray on 1 December 1959, finally disbanding there on 23 August 1963.<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served on No 254 Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: September 1941 Blazon: A Raven wings endorsed and inverted Sable detailed Or Link: In view of the squadron’s associations with northern waters it adopted a raven which is reputed to be a symbol of the Vikings Motto: Norse: Fljuga vakta ok ljosta \u2013 To fly, to watch and to strike History: Formed in May […]<\/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\/3931"}],"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=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}