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Awarded:<\/strong> March 1945<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of two Shells in saltire proper an Eagle’s Head erased Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> This Air Observation Post squadron adopted this badge as being indicative of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery which it assists<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Olethrion omma<\/em> \u2013 Death dealing eye<\/p>\n History<\/strong>: Formed Old Sarum 30 September 1943 Disbanded at Melsbroek, Belgium on 15 December 1945. It reformed at Colerne as a Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadron on 1 February 1949 where it finally disbanded on 10 March 1957. NB. Although the badge was issued to the RAF squadron, most of its life was spent as an RAuxAF squadron and this would have been changed on the badge circlet when it reformed.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served with No 662 Squadron RAF and RAuxAF.<\/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: In front of two Shells in saltire proper an Eagle’s Head erased Or Link: This Air Observation Post squadron adopted this badge as being indicative of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery which it assists Motto: Latin: Olethrion omma \u2013 Death dealing eye History: Formed Old Sarum 30 September […]<\/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\/4475"}],"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=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5701,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}