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History: Formed at Newmarket in February 1942. | |||
[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Badge: An open fetterlock gules.<br> | |||
Motto: Liberate. | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The Badge symbolises the liberating of occupied territories. It was granted in April 1944. | |||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]]: Image from Wikimedia Commons. | [[Literature]]: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from Knights in the Sky Part Five by B.R. Holliss and R. Symons. | ||
[[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Air Force heraldry]] | [[Category:Air Force heraldry]] | ||
[[Category: Granted 1944]] | |||