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Awarded:<\/strong> March 1945<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Popinjay displayed Vert\/Azure perched<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The functions of this unit included towing for the anti-aircraft defences. A popinjay was used in the old days for shooting practice. The motto consists of the first words of the French proverb ‘C’est en forgeant qu’ on devient forgeron’ which can be regarded as an\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 allusion to this.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> C’est en forgeant<\/em> \u2013 Practice makes perfect<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Croydon on 19 November 1941 Disbanded at West Malling on 15 June 1946<\/p>\n Battle Honours<\/strong>: No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 287 Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: March 1945 Blazon: A Popinjay displayed Vert\/Azure perched Link: The functions of this unit included towing for the anti-aircraft defences. A popinjay was used in the old days for shooting practice. The motto consists of the first words of the French proverb ‘C’est en forgeant qu’ on devient forgeron’ which can be regarded 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\/4045"}],"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=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}