No. 255 Squadron RAF
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No. 255 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron formed as an anti-submarine unit in First World War and a night-fighter unit in Second World War. The First World War squadron was formed from former Royal Naval Air Service coastal flights and was responsible for coastal anti-submarine patrols. It was disbanded after the war.
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No. 255 Squadron RAF
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No. 255 Squadron RAF
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23
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Hand-painted metallic casting circa 1950, depicting the Squadron's official badge
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United Kingdom
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November 2014
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--07-06
--11-23
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YD
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A panther’s head cabossed Sable eyed and tongued proper
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Squadron codes
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Squadron badge heraldry
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A Bull Mastiff
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Latin: Ad Auroram
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Unpublished source is not reliable
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Most readers will not understand where this is, so perhaps state "x miles off y" or something similar that readers might understand
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No. 255 Squadron RAF
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No. 255 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron formed as an anti-submarine unit in First World War and a night-fighter unit in Second World War. The First World War squadron was formed from former Royal Naval Air Service coastal flights and was responsible for coastal anti-submarine patrols. It was disbanded after the war. During the Second World War the squadron operated as a night fighter unit, at first with the Boulton Paul Defiant and later the Bristol Beaufighter. It served in the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1942 when it moved to operate in North Africa and then Italy, where it remained until the end of the war. It subsequently served in Malta, and then Egypt, before being disbanded in 1946.
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1919
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1918
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Apanther’s head cabossed Sable eyed and tongued proper
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YD (November 1940 – April 1946)
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(1942) A Bull Mastiff
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Latin: Ad Auroram ("To the break of dawn")
