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History:<\/strong> Formed at Acklington on 22 February 1941 equipped with Hurricanes, becoming operational in March. Moving south in June to take<\/p>\n part in sweeps and bomber escort missions over France, it converted to Spitfires in October 1941 and joined other Polish units at Northolt in April 1942. It continued to fly offensive missions over northern France before joining 2TAF in preparation for the invasion of Europe and after flying ground attack missions in support of the landings it moved to Normandy in August 1944 advancing to Belgium by October. It flew sweeps over Germany, moving there in April 1945 to join the occupation forces until it disbanded on 18 December 1946.<\/p>\n Dedication:<\/strong> Polish: Ufundowana przez Stowarzyszenie Lotnikow Polskich i Ivan Nigel Moore, odznaka poswiecona wszystkim zolnierzom, ktorzy sluzyli w 317 Dywizjonie Polskich Sil Powietrznych<\/em>. Sponsored by the Polish Air Force Association and Ivon Nigel Moore: dedicated to all who servedwith No 317 Squadron.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History: Formed at Acklington on 22 February 1941 equipped with Hurricanes, becoming operational in March. Moving south in June to take part in sweeps and bomber escort missions over France, it converted to Spitfires in October 1941 and joined other Polish units at Northolt in April 1942. It continued to fly offensive missions over northern […]<\/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\/7155"}],"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=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7157,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}