{"id":9247,"date":"2018-04-11T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:37:36","slug":"raf-norton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/raf-norton\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Norton"},"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\/2018\/04\/RAF-Stn-Norton.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>Norton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blazon<\/strong>: A Flash of Lightning Gules and a Chain Or grasped by two Gauntlets Argent in saltire<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> The flash of lightning and chain grasped by gauntlets symbolises the station\u2019s main function which is to receive and test the constituent elements of mobile radar convoys.<\/p>\n<p>Date of Issue: June 1954<\/p>\n<p>Motto: Test and prove<\/p>\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong> Formed as No 16 Balloon Centre on 1 September 1939, was renamed RAF Station Norton on 1 June 1943 and closed on 31 January 1965<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Just wood and dedicated to all who served at RAF Station Norton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norton Blazon: A Flash of Lightning Gules and a Chain Or grasped by two Gauntlets Argent in saltire Link: The flash of lightning and chain grasped by gauntlets symbolises the station\u2019s main function which is to receive and test the constituent elements of mobile radar convoys. Date of Issue: June 1954 Motto: Test and prove [&hellip;]<\/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\/9247"}],"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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}