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Awarded:<\/strong> July 1937<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: A Puma salient Sable<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The unit once had aircraft equipped with Puma engines and it symbolised the independence and tenacity of purpose shown by its daylight raids into Germany during World War I.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Quisque tenax<\/em> – Each tenacious.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Yatesbury 15 August 1917 disbanded Brize Norton 6 January 1976.NB. Re-formed early 2002 – current, after completion of the artwork.<\/p>\n Battle Honours:<\/strong> 1. Western Front 1918. 2. Independent Force & Germany 1918. 3. Fortress Europe 1940-42. 4. Ruhr 1940-42. 5. Berlin 1940-42. 6. Arakan 1942-44. 7. Burma 1944-45. 8. Eastern Waters 1945. 9. German Ports 1940-41. 10. Baltic 1940-41. 11. France & Low Countries 1940. 12. Biscay Ports 1941. 13. Manipur 1944.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 99 Squadron.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: July 1937 Blazon: A Puma salient Sable Link: The unit once had aircraft equipped with Puma engines and it symbolised the independence and tenacity of purpose shown by its daylight raids into Germany during World War I. Motto: Quisque tenax – Each tenacious. History: Formed Yatesbury 15 August 1917 disbanded Brize Norton 6 January […]<\/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\/5541"}],"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=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}