{"id":6081,"date":"2016-06-17T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2016-06-17T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:39:12","slug":"digby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/17\/digby\/","title":{"rendered":"Digby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Image&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/RAF-Stn-Digby.jpg&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; animation=&#8221;left&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awarded:<\/strong> July 1952<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Maple Leaf Or a Crane rising Argent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The maple leaf commemorates the RCAF units which used the airfield in 1943-46. The crane comes from the Arms of Cranwell and alludes to the fact that\u00a0 Digby was used in 1917 as an overflow station for RNAS cadets from Cranwell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Latin: <em>Icarus renatus<\/em>&#8211; Icarus reborn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Opened 28 March 1918. Current (2005)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Digby. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: July 1952 Blazon: In front of a Maple Leaf Or a Crane rising Argent. Link: The maple leaf commemorates the RCAF units which used the airfield in 1943-46. The crane comes from the Arms of Cranwell and alludes to the fact that\u00a0 Digby was used in 1917 as an overflow station for RNAS cadets [&hellip;]<\/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\/6081"}],"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=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}