{"id":3132,"date":"2010-07-22T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2010-07-22T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T10:25:45","slug":"the-battle-of-britain-2-the-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3132","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Britain (2): the Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is  that we are a very effective partner of the US but we are the junior  partner. We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking to Sky television<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year is the 70th anniversary of the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Britain\"> Battle of Britain<\/a> in 1940. The Royal Air Force roll of honour for the Battle recognises   595 non-British pilots (out of 2,936) as flying at least one authorised   operational sortie with an eligible unit of the RAF between 10 July  and 31 October 1940.<\/p>\n<p>That means that one in five of the RAF pilots were  not British. But only seven of them were American because, of course, the USA did not enter the war until December 1941.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the Prime Minister meant to say something different but he needs to be more careful on such sensitive matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is that we are a very effective partner of the US but we are the junior partner. We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis.&#8221; British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking to Sky television This [&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-3132","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\/3132","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=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}