{"id":43787,"date":"2018-07-05T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43787"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T22:45:07","slug":"tales-of-cromwell-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/tales-of-cromwell-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Cromwell tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmqqrtChc40\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lindybeige<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 6 Apr 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>War memoirs are filled with amazing anecdotes. Here I relate two, and ramble a bit about British WW2 tank units.<br \/>\nSupport me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am likely to return to this topic &#8211; anecdotes from war memoirs. It is a rich vein of stories. These come from <em>Troop Leader<\/em> by Bill Bellamy, which describes the author&#8217;s time commanding a trio of fast Cromwell tanks in World War Two, when fighting the Germans in Holland.<\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published on 6 Apr 2016 War memoirs are filled with amazing anecdotes. Here I relate two, and ramble a bit about British WW2 tank units. Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige I am likely to return to this topic &#8211; anecdotes from war memoirs. It is a rich vein of stories. These come from Troop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,7,5,15,230],"tags":[991,31,1102,222],"class_list":["post-43787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-army","tag-cavalry","tag-netherlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bof","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43788,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787\/revisions\/43788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}