{"id":6573,"date":"2016-06-19T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2016-06-19T20:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T20:00:59","slug":"bomber-command-bombing-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/19\/bomber-command-bombing-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomber Command Bombing School"},"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\/Bomber-Command-Bombing-School.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> June 1954<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> Two Flashes in saltire Or surmounted by as many Bombs Sable also in saltire and in front thereof a Rapier in pale Argent hilted Or point downwards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong>: The bombs are the main weapon of the Command, the flashes indicate the use of radar as an aid to bombing whilst the rapier represents the strike role of the command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> Strike with Accuracy<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed Scampton 15 October 1952, became Strike Command Bombing School<\/p>\n<p><em>Commissioned by SAC J B Tomlinson (Eng. Mech.) in Memory of his colleagues in \u2018B\u2019 Squadron, RAF Lindholme, 1954-1958<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: June 1954 Blazon: Two Flashes in saltire Or surmounted by as many Bombs Sable also in saltire and in front thereof a Rapier in pale Argent hilted Or point downwards. Link: The bombs are the main weapon of the Command, the flashes indicate the use of radar as an aid to bombing whilst the [&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":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573"}],"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=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6575,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}