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Luqa <\/strong><\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> In front of a Maltese Cross per pale Argent\/Gules a Castle Or<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The design indicates that this important airfield in Malta withstood every attack against it throughout the siege of the \u2018Island Fortress\u2019 and remained on the offensive through all the Mediterranean campaigns.<\/strong><\/p>\n Date of Issue<\/strong>: February 1945<\/p>\n Motto<\/strong>: Maltese: Mitjar qatt mirbuh<\/em> \u2013 An airfield never beaten<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Opened May 1940 and closed on 31 March 1979<\/p>\n Sponsored by Just Wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Luqa<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luqa Blazon: In front of a Maltese Cross per pale Argent\/Gules a Castle Or Link: The design indicates that this important airfield in Malta withstood every attack against it throughout the siege of the \u2018Island Fortress\u2019 and remained on the offensive through all the Mediterranean campaigns. Date of Issue: February 1945 Motto: Maltese: Mitjar qatt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9209,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}