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Awarded:<\/strong> July 1951<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> An Eagle displayed Argent holding a Snaffle bit Argent<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Sqn formed with Polish personnel and the eagle being a symbol of Poland alludes to this. The bit is indicative of control exercised over artillery formations for which the unit operated.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> We fly for the guns.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed San Basilio, Italy 14 August 1944 Disbanded 10 March 1957.<\/p>\n Battle Honours<\/strong>: No Standard.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Mr Keith Atherton and dedicated to all who served with 663 Sqn from the RAF, the RAuxAF, the Army and Territorial Army, together with the civilian staff who worked for the Sqn which operated as an Air Observation Post Unit.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: July 1951 Blazon: An Eagle displayed Argent holding a Snaffle bit Argent Link: The Sqn formed with Polish personnel and the eagle being a symbol of Poland alludes to this. The bit is indicative of control exercised over artillery formations for which the unit operated. Motto: We fly for the guns. History: Formed San […]<\/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\/4479"}],"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=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5703,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}