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Awarded:<\/strong> June 1955<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Kris Argent in bend point upwards a Hornet proper.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The hornet is believed to be the most aggressive insect common to Malaya and therefore alludes to the possible spirit of the station. The Kris is indicative of the location of the station.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Malay: Sarang serta sengat<\/em> – The nest with the sting.<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened 7 May 1941 immediately occupied by Japanese -reopened January 1946. Handed over to Royal Australian Air Force control 1 July 1958.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Peter E Hamlin and dedicated to the Armament staff 1961 – 64<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: June 1955 Blazon: In front of a Kris Argent in bend point upwards a Hornet proper. Link: The hornet is believed to be the most aggressive insect common to Malaya and therefore alludes to the possible spirit of the station. The Kris is indicative of the location of the station. Motto: Malay: Sarang serta […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021"}],"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=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6023,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}