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Awarded:<\/strong> August 1947<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> Three Swords in pile points upwards Argent pomelled and hilted Or each enfiled by an Astral Crown Or<\/p>\n Link<\/strong>: The group operated from airfields around Ely which See included in its Arms 3 Crowns gules. This link with the location also reflects the number of the Group. The swords indicate the operations of the group.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Dutch: Niet zonder arbijt<\/em> – Not without labour<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed by renaming the Western Area 1 May 1936 Andover. Disbanded 1 November 1967.<\/p>\n Commissioned by Mr Gary Godel and dedicated to all who flew and maintained the Wellingtons and Stirlings of Bomber Command.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: August 1947 Blazon: Three Swords in pile points upwards Argent pomelled and hilted Or each enfiled by an Astral Crown Or Link: The group operated from airfields around Ely which See included in its Arms 3 Crowns gules. This link with the location also reflects the number of the Group. The swords indicate 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\/6617"}],"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=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}