Squadrons
formed during wartime were not permitted to have official badges designed
and bestowed on them. Undeterred, some of the brightest spirits from
No. 13 Squadron's six years of existence in World War II, painstakingly
designed their own, albeit unofficial, badge shown here. Despite the
superstition surrounding the number 13, it held no terrors for us as
our Squadron record shows. The heraldic quarters cock a snoot at superstition
and include a leaning ladder, a cracked mirror, a match lighting three
cigarettes and that most fearful of days - Friday the 13th. The heraldic
scroll sums up neatly how the the foe must have perceived our Squadron
- "Frateres Diaboli" (The Devil's Brothers).
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