342 All Weather Squadron - Anniversary 1975-2003

For the retirement of the type Mirage F-1 for 342 All Weather Squadron.
The words in greek "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ" (Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh)) mean: "COME AND GET THEM".
Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back.


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