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Awarded:<\/strong> November 1951<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a pair of Wings conjoined in base Gules and Azure a Gun Barrel fesswise Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> This Air Observation Post unit symbolises its functions by introducing in its badge a gun barrel for the artillery fire which it directs, and wings \u2013 in the colours of the Royal regiment of Artillery \u2013 to indicate that the observation and direction is carried out by Army personnel.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Sive aere sive campo<\/em> \u2013 In the air and in the field<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Old Sarum on 1 May 1942 and was absorbed by the Army Air Corps at Detmold on 1 September 1957<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No. 652 Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: November 1951 Blazon: In front of a pair of Wings conjoined in base Gules and Azure a Gun Barrel fesswise Or Link: This Air Observation Post unit symbolises its functions by introducing in its badge a gun barrel for the artillery fire which it directs, and wings \u2013 in the colours of the Royal […]<\/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\/4443"}],"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=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}