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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1941<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> An Oak Tree fructed and eradicated Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The \u2018Major Oak\u2019 appears in the Arms of Nottingham<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> latin: Vindicat in ventis<\/em> – It avenges in the winds.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Hucknall 26 March 1928. Disbanded Wymeswold 10 March 1957. The Sqn No. was revived on 1 October 1999 and is now an Offensive Support Role Support Sqn with the R Aux AF.<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> 1. France & Low Countries 1940. 2. Battle of Britain 1940. 3. Home Defence 1940-42. 4. Atlantic 1941-42. 5. Fortress Europe 1942- 44. 6. Normandy 1944. 7. Arnhem. 8. France & Germany 1944-45<\/p>\n Commissioned by Gerald Smith and Trevor Handley as a tribute to all those who served with 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron in defence of freedom 1928-1957.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1941 Blazon: An Oak Tree fructed and eradicated Or. Link: The \u2018Major Oak\u2019 appears in the Arms of Nottingham Motto: latin: Vindicat in ventis – It avenges in the winds. History: Formed Hucknall 26 March 1928. Disbanded Wymeswold 10 March 1957. The Sqn No. was revived on 1 October 1999 and is now […]<\/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\/4217"}],"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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}