{"id":563214,"date":"2025-11-11T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563214\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:45:25","slug":"manchester-airport-unveils-new-memorial-to-its-wartime-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563214\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Airport unveils new memorial to its wartime heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\"><strong>Manchester Airport has unveiled a\u00a0new memorial to a\u00a0Second World War\u00a0RAF squadron\u00a0that\u00a0was based on the airport site.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The\u00a0memorial, which\u00a0comprises\u00a0a 1:4 scale Spitfire over a\u00a0circular flowerbed filled with poppies,\u00a0pays tribute to the\u00a0613\u00a0(City of Manchester) Squadron\u00a0of the\u00a0Royal Air Force, which\u00a0was formed\u00a0at RAF Ringway, the wartime name for Manchester Airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The squadron\u00a0saw action as a\u00a0reconnaissance\u00a0and\u00a0tactical bomber unit\u00a0and\u00a0remained operational until 1957.\u00a0Its fleet included the\u00a0De Havilland Mosquito, the North American Mustang, and the iconic Supermarine Spitfire \u2013 the inspiration for the new memorial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The\u00a0model\u00a0aircraft\u00a0that forms part of the memorial\u00a0is adorned\u00a0with a\u00a0613 Squadron emblem and\u00a0a\u00a0recognition code (RAT)\u00a0used on\u00a0aircraft\u00a0flown from RAF Ringway.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The unveiling of the memorial comes\u00a0in the year that marked the 80th\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0the end of the Second World War and aims to preserve the memory of the role that RAF Ringway \u2013 and the City of Manchester more broadly \u2013 played in\u00a0the Allied victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">It will form the centrepiece of the airport\u2019s Armistice Day commemorations\u00a0this morning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester Airport has unveiled a\u00a0new memorial to a\u00a0Second World War\u00a0RAF squadron\u00a0that\u00a0was based on the airport site.\u00a0 The\u00a0memorial, which\u00a0comprises\u00a0a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,14362,70962,393,4884,2465,2314,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-corporate","10":"tag-corporate-news","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-airport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115530191682128455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}