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Awarded:<\/strong> April 1943<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: In front of a triple-towered Castle Gules a Key in bend the ward uppermost Or the whole in front of a pair of Wings conjoined in base also Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The wings represent the RAF whilst the castle and key taken from the Arms of Gibraltar represent the location and the fact that Gibraltar is known as the key to the Mediterranean<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Latin: Preta custodimus altaque verrimus<\/em> – We guard the straits and scour the high seas<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed on 1 May 1942 by re-naming No 200 Group and disbanded on 30 November 1966<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served at Air Headquarters Gibraltar<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: April 1943 Blazon: In front of a triple-towered Castle Gules a Key in bend the ward uppermost Or the whole in front of a pair of Wings conjoined in base also Or Link: The wings represent the RAF whilst the castle and key taken from the Arms of Gibraltar represent the location and the […]<\/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":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547"}],"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=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}