{"id":4536,"date":"2011-01-10T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2011-01-11T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:02:46","slug":"the-sinking-of-the-laconia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4536","title":{"rendered":"The sinking of the &#8220;Laconia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now managed to watch the two-part, three-hour television drama on the sinking of the &#8220;Laconia&#8221;<strong> <\/strong> which was broadcast in Britain on BBC2 on 6 and 7 January. The film is a British-German co-production written by Alan Bleasdale.<\/p>\n<p>It tells the remarkable story of how, on 12 September 1942, the German submarine U-542 sank the British ship the &#8220;Laconia&#8221; but then endeavoured to rescue many of the survivors until an American B-24 Liberator bombed them.<\/p>\n<p>The well done and ably acted dramatisation shows how messy war is both operationally and morally but presents the Germans in an uncharacteristically humane light.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about this incident <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laconia_incident\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now managed to watch the two-part, three-hour television drama on the sinking of the &#8220;Laconia&#8221; which was broadcast in Britain on BBC2 on 6 and 7 January. The film is a British-German co-production written by Alan Bleasdale. It tells the remarkable story of how, on 12 September 1942, the German submarine U-542 sank the [&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-4536","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\/4536","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=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}