Battle Honours
The Army Air Corps is classed, in UK military parlance, as a "Combat Arm". It therefore carries its own guidon and is awarded battle honours. The honours awarded to the AAC are:
- Normandy Landings 1944
- Merville Battery 1944
- Rhine 1945
- North West Europe 1944 - 45
- Sicily 1943
- Pegasus Bridge
- Arnhem 1944
- Southern France
- Falkland Islands 1982
- Wadi al Batin 1991
- Gulf 1991
- Al-Basrah
- Iraq 2003
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