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Awarded:<\/strong> January 1953<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> An Assyrian Bull Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The bull symbolises the area and the RAF, being a powerful beast found in all parts of the region<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Pennae extentae<\/em> – Widespread wings<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Hinaidi on 1 February 1922 by raising Iraq Group to Command status. It was renamed AHQ Iraq & Persia on 1 January 1943 before reverting to AHQ Iraq on 1 March 1946 before being renamed AHQ Levant on 1 May 1955. On 15 January 1956 it moved to Cyprus absorbing AHQ Cyprus and assuming responsibility for Cyprus, Iraq and El Adem, finally disbanding on 1 April 1958<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served at Air Headquarters Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: January 1953 Blazon: An Assyrian Bull Or Link: The bull symbolises the area and the RAF, being a powerful beast found in all parts of the region Motto: Latin: Pennae extentae – Widespread wings History: Formed at Hinaidi on 1 February 1922 by raising Iraq Group to Command status. It was renamed AHQ Iraq […]<\/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\/6551"}],"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=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}