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Awarded:<\/strong> Formed at Bramcote on 22 August 1940 as a light bomber unit equipped with battles converting to Wellingtons in November before becoming operational on 25 April 1941. The unit spent a year with Bomber Command before being transferred to Coastal Command in May 1942 where it flew sea patrols until transferring to Transport Command in July 1945. It was re-equipped with Warwicks with which it operated over Italy and Greece before converting to Halifaxes in April 1946. These were flown for training purposes until the squadron disbanded on 18 December 1946.<\/p>\n Dedication:<\/strong> Commissioned by Capt. Brian Knock on behalf of Mrs Jean Knock in Memory of W\/O Franck ‘Frank’ Czekalski and his Polish comrades and of all who did not return while serving on No 304 Squadron. Sponsor:\u00a0 Capt. B Knock,<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: Formed at Bramcote on 22 August 1940 as a light bomber unit equipped with battles converting to Wellingtons in November before becoming operational on 25 April 1941. The unit spent a year with Bomber Command before being transferred to Coastal Command in May 1942 where it flew sea patrols until transferring to Transport Command […]<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123"}],"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=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}