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Squadron badge heraldry: A tiger's face. ... No. 74 Squadron, also known as 'Tiger Squadron' from its tiger-head motif, was a squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
In the case of 100 Squadron, their badge incorporated a skull and crossbones insignia that had been liberated from a French "house of ill-repute" in 1918. [6] Some mascots were back formations from the badge rather than supplying the idea for the badge. No. 234 Squadron had "..a dragon
The squadron code is usually presented along with an individual letter or character to form a call sign for the particular aircraft. Location of the call sign combination has usually been on the rear fuselage next to the RAF roundel. In instances when an unusually large numbers of aircraft comprise the squadron, multiple squadron codes have ...
After World War II many badges were phased out of the United States Armed Forces in favor of more modern military badges which are used today. A unique obsolete badge situation occurred with General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold , who in 1913 was among the 24 Army pilots to receive the first Military Aviator Badge , an eagle bearing Signal ...
Squadron Squadron Code Radio call sign Aircraft Type Number of Casualties No. 1 Squadron RAF: JX: ACORN: Hurricane: 7 No. 3 Squadron RAF: QO: Hurricane: 1 No. 17 Squadron RAF
The station badge was a stone tower surmounted by a mailed fist grasping three bind-bolts ... No. 74 (F) Squadron relocated to RAF Leuchars in Scotland on 2 March ...
VF-43 was a fighter squadron of the U.S. Navy.The squadron was originally established as Fighter Squadron 74A (VF-74A) on 1 May 1945, it was redesignated Fighter Squadron 74 (VF-74) on 1 August 1945, redesignated VF-1B on 15 November 1946, redesignated VF-21 on 1 September 1948, redesignated as Attack Squadron 43 (VA-43) Challengers on 1 July 1959 and Fighter Squadron 43 (VF-43) on 1 June 1973.
Taffy designed an unofficial badge for 53 OTU by adding wings to the tiger head of his 74 Squadron, but I cannot recall the motto. Maybe it was in Welsh. He had a habit of raising his drinking arm to the horizontal when toasting 'One f-f-for the T-t-tiger' in his unfortunate but endearing stutter.