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The | The badge symbolises the Fighter Role, the Latin Motto translates as "Up and into the fight". The badge was approved in 1945. | ||
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NO 806 SQUADRON, FAA
History: First formed in 1940 at Royal Navla Air Station Worthy Down (HMS Ariel), Hampshire as a Fighter Squadron and served in HMS Indomitable in 1942. The Squadron reformed at the end of the Second Word War with Seafires 1945-1947.
English | Per fess wavy and barry wavy of six white and blue; issuant from base a dexter cubit arm in pale armoured proper grasping a flash of lightning in bend gold. Motto: Sursum in pugnam. |
Origin/meaning
The badge symbolises the Fighter Role, the Latin Motto translates as "Up and into the fight". The badge was approved in 1945.
Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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