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Awarded:<\/strong> October 1957<\/p>\n Blazon<\/strong>: In front of an Annulet of Rope Or a Maltese Cross Gules surmounted of a Terrestrial Globe Vert\/Azure<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The Maltese cross indicates the unit\u2019s location whilst the rope suggests its target towing role and the terrestrial globe on which the Mediterranean Sea is prominent is to symbolise the communications function<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Latin: Mare transeo internum<\/em> \u2013 I travel across the Inland Sea<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed at Hal Far, Malta as AHQ Malta Communictions Flight on 1 March 1944 and was renamed Malta Communications &<\/p>\n Target Towing Squadron on 1 July 1954. On 1 August 1963 it lost the Target Towing element and reverted to Malta Communications<\/p>\n Flight and finally disbanded at Luqa on 30 June 1968<\/p>\n Sponsored by Ivon Nigel Moore and dedicated to all who served with Malta Communications & Target Towing Squadron<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: October 1957 Blazon: In front of an Annulet of Rope Or a Maltese Cross Gules surmounted of a Terrestrial Globe Vert\/Azure Link: The Maltese cross indicates the unit\u2019s location whilst the rope suggests its target towing role and the terrestrial globe on which the Mediterranean Sea is prominent is to symbolise the communications function […]<\/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\/6981"}],"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=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}