{"id":3350,"date":"2010-09-15T07:06:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2010-09-15T07:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T06:07:49","slug":"the-battle-of-britain-5-the-turning-point-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Britain (5): the turning point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one day that is seen to have been decisive in the Battle of Britain, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/upload\/package\/27\/battleofbritain\/imp15sept.htm\">15 September 1940<\/a> &#8211; 70 years ago today &#8211; and, since the war, it has been celebrated as  Battle of Britain Day.<\/p>\n<p>Although in reality Royal Air Force claims were  three times the actual number of German aircraft destroyed, the  Luftwaffe itself recognised that its effort to gain air supremacy for a  sea invasion was not going to happen, so Hitler called off the invasion plans, allowing Britain to survive until the Americans entered the war a year or so later.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hurricanes shot down twice as many German aircraft as Spitfires, in the public imagination it is the sleek Spitfire that is most associated with the Battle and today there are many more Spitfires than Hurricanes still flying. As blogged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3527\">here<\/a>, I recently saw no less than 16 in the air together:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Spitfires.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\n<span>16 Spitfires as photographed by Josef Vochyan<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one day that is seen to have been decisive in the Battle of Britain, it was 15 September 1940 &#8211; 70 years ago today &#8211; and, since the war, it has been celebrated as Battle of Britain Day. Although in reality Royal Air Force claims were three times the actual number of [&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-3350","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\/3350","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=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}