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Awarded:<\/strong> 1954<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> A Bezant charged with a Bend Azure surmounted of a demi- Column fluted proper issuant from the base and ensigned by an Astral Crown Or.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The bend azure on the bezant indicates the Nile flowing across the desert. The astral crown suggests the success of RAF operations and the column is symbolic of the maintenance service on which the units of the Group \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 can rely.<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Support to the wings<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed on 17 June 1941 as Maintenance Group, becoming No 206 (Maintenance) Group in Middle East Command on 1 September 1941 before disbanding into No 219 Group on 28 February 1946. It re-formed on 1 June 1951 as No 206 (Base \u00a0\u00a0 Maintenance) Group in the Middle East Air Force at Abyad before finally disbanding into No 205 Group on 31 August 1954.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 206 Group.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: 1954 Blazon: A Bezant charged with a Bend Azure surmounted of a demi- Column fluted proper issuant from the base and ensigned by an Astral Crown Or. Link: The bend azure on the bezant indicates the Nile flowing across the desert. The astral crown suggests the success of RAF operations and the column is […]<\/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\/6677"}],"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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}