{"id":6673,"date":"2016-06-21T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2017-08-19T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T15:10:26","slug":"no-205-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/21\/no-205-group\/","title":{"rendered":"No.205 Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1944<\/p>\n

Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Decrescent Argent a Bomb in bend sinister Sable<\/p>\n

Link<\/strong>: The badge indicates the role and location of the Group which was responsible for night bomber operations. The decrescent also has a long association with Egypt.<\/p>\n

Motto:<\/strong> Through darkness to light.<\/p>\n

History:<\/strong> Formed October 1941 by renaming No 257 Wing at Shallufa Finally disbanded 15 April 1956.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by 205 Group Association in Memory of Wg Cdr Sir Henry Calley (formerly Langton) DSO DFC., 1914-77. A great commander, Officer and gentleman.<\/em><\/p>\n

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No.205 Group: Historical Notes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CLICK image to view Historical Notes\u00a0for No.205 Group<\/span><\/p>\n

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No.205 Group: Books and Articles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CLICK image to view Book Reviews and Articles for\u00a0No.205 Group<\/span><\/p>\n

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Awarded: October 1944 Blazon: In front of a Decrescent Argent a Bomb in bend sinister Sable Link: The badge indicates the role and location of the Group which was responsible for night bomber operations. The decrescent also has a long association with Egypt. Motto: Through darkness to light. History: Formed October 1941 by renaming No […]<\/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\/6673"}],"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=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}