{"id":23866,"date":"2018-11-28T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23866"},"modified":"2018-12-04T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:04:49","slug":"discovery-of-an-intact-spitfire-after-76-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23866","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of an intact Spitfire after 76 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-lost Second World War Spitfire flown by a pilot who was part of the \u201cGreat Escape\u201d has been found almost entirely intact on a Norwegian mountain \u2013 76 years after it was shot down by the Germans.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is the first time for more than 20 years that a substantially complete and previously unknown Spitfire from this period has been found anywhere in the world. Its pilot was captured and ultimately executed by the Nazis for taking part in the war\u2019s most famous prisoner-of-war breakout, immortalised in the classic movie &#8220;<em>The Great Escape&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of substantial historical importance, the find highlights a normally ignored aspect of the Second World War \u2013 the RAF\u2019s ultra-secret aerial wartime espionage missions.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this aircraft <a href=\"http:\/\/a.msn.com\/01\/en-nz\/BBQ1y75?ocid=se\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A television documentary on the discovery and recovery of Spitfire AA810 will be broadcast, as part of the &#8220;<i>Digging for Britain&#8221;\u00a0<\/i>archaeology series, on BBC4 at 9 pm today Wednesday 28 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-lost Second World War Spitfire flown by a pilot who was part of the \u201cGreat Escape\u201d has been found almost entirely intact on a Norwegian mountain \u2013 76 years after it was shot down by the Germans. The discovery is the first time for more than 20 years that a substantially complete and previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23890,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23866\/revisions\/23890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}