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Awarded:<\/strong> November 1944<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Bird’s Eye Speedwell proper<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The germander speedwell commonly known as ‘Bird’s Eye Speedwell’ is considered symbolic of the unit’s functions of photographic reconnaissance. The words ‘bird’s eye’ have reference to the camera and reconnaissance from above and ‘speedwell’ to the ground crew who see the pilot on his way.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Alone above all<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Benson on 19 October 1942; disbanded at Wunsdorf on 6 September 1957<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> No Standard<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 541 Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: November 1944 Blazon: A Bird’s Eye Speedwell proper Link: The germander speedwell commonly known as ‘Bird’s Eye Speedwell’ is considered symbolic of the unit’s functions of photographic reconnaissance. The words ‘bird’s eye’ have reference to the camera and reconnaissance from above and ‘speedwell’ to the ground crew who see the pilot on his way. […]<\/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\/4277"}],"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=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}