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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
A hand couped at the wrist gules holding a gun-barrel in bend Or.<br> | A hand couped at the wrist gules holding a gun-barrel in bend Or.<br> | ||
Motto: Per terras | Motto: Per terras perque caelum | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== |
Latest revision as of 11:00, 4 November 2023
NO 657 SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE
History: Formed at Ouston in Janaury 1943.
Official blazon
A hand couped at the wrist gules holding a gun-barrel in bend Or.
Motto: Per terras perque caelum
Origin/meaning
The Hand and Gun-Barrels refers to the directing Role as an Air Obeservation Post. The Motto translates as ”By land and sky”. The Badge was approved in September 1946.
Literature: Image from picclick.com. Information from Knights of the Sky Badges and Markings of the Royal Air Force Part Five: Numbered Flying Squadrons by B.R. Holliss and R. Symons.
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