{"id":6973,"date":"2016-06-24T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:21:23","slug":"no-2-ferry-control-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/24\/no-2-ferry-control-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"No.2 Ferry Control Unit"},"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\/Ferry-Control-Unit-2.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> July 1944<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon:<\/strong> A Swallow volant proper carrying in the beak a Key Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The migratory swallow is carrying the key to victory across the world in the form of weapons of war<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto:<\/strong> We bring the tools<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed at Gebel Hamzi, Sudan on 23 September 1944; absorbed into No 5 Ferry Unit at Cairo West on 1 December 1945. Reformed as No 2 (Home) Ferry unit at Aston Down on 7 February 1952; Re-designated No 187 Squadron there on 1 February 1953<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with No 2 Ferry Unit<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded: July 1944 Blazon: A Swallow volant proper carrying in the beak a Key Or Link: The migratory swallow is carrying the key to victory across the world in the form of weapons of war Motto: We bring the tools History: Formed at Gebel Hamzi, Sudan on 23 September 1944; absorbed into No 5 Ferry [&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":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973"}],"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=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6975,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/6975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}