{"id":7168,"date":"2013-06-05T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/sky_surfing\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2013-06-13T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T01:12:02","slug":"operation-chastise70-the-dambusters-raid-%e2%80%a2-vintage-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2013\/06\/05\/operation-chastise70-the-dambusters-raid-%e2%80%a2-vintage-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Chastise70 &#8211; The Dambusters Raid \u2022 Vintage Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators<\/p>\n<p>It has been 70 years since <strong>Wing Commander Guy Gibson<\/strong> led his famous Dam<strong> Buster Lancasters<\/strong> deep into Germany to execute an attack which was so <strong>daring<\/strong> and so <strong>innovative<\/strong> that no one, least of all the Nazis, saw it coming. Like the <strong>Doolittle Raid<\/strong>, it stunned the enemy, was tactically brilliant, strategically superficial, but galvanized and inspired a nation looking to <strong>strike back<\/strong> at a haughty opponent. The story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/VintageNews\/Stories\/tabid\/116\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/419\/language\/en-CA\/Operation-Chastise.aspx\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vintage Wings of Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chastise.jpg\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.vintagewings.ca\/VintageNews\/Stories\/tabid\/116\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/419\/language\/en-CA\/Operation-Chastise.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7169\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chastise.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chastise.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chastise-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Chastise-448x640.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators It has been 70 years since Wing Commander Guy Gibson led his famous Dam Buster Lancasters deep into Germany to execute an attack which was so daring and so innovative that no one, least of all the Nazis, saw it coming. Like the Doolittle Raid, it stunned the enemy, was tactically <a href='https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2013\/06\/05\/operation-chastise70-the-dambusters-raid-%e2%80%a2-vintage-wings\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}