{"id":95206,"date":"2025-04-19T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95206"},"modified":"2025-04-18T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:29:47","slug":"dambusters-part-2-the-countdown-to-the-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/19\/dambusters-part-2-the-countdown-to-the-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dambusters &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; The Countdown to the Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_CeapApplI?si=NgdF_ry9Oqv9V--8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HardThrasher<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Apr 2025<\/p>\n<p>The speed with which a theory had to be put into practice, and the opening phase of the raid itself.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>THESE LINKS ARE ONLY FOR THE SERIOUSLY SEXY<br \/>\nMerch! &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bibliography<br \/>\nJames Holland \u2013 <em>Dambusters: the Races to Smash the Dams 1943<\/em><br \/>\nMax Hastings \u2013 <em>Chastise \u2013 The Dambusters Story<\/em><br \/>\nAlan Cooper \u2013 <em>The Battle of the Ruhr<\/em><br \/>\nAdam Tooze \u2013 <em>The Wages of Destruction<\/em><br \/>\nMartin Millbrook and Chris Everett \u2013 <em>The Bomber Command War Diaries<\/em><br \/>\nEdward Westerman \u2013 <em>Flak &#8211; German Anti Aircraft Defences [sic] 1914-1945<\/em><br \/>\nTami Davis Biddle \u2013 <em>Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare<\/em><br \/>\nDonald A Miller &#8211; <em>Masters of the Air<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardThrasher Published 17 Apr 2025 The speed with which a theory had to be put into practice, and the opening phase of the raid itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[145,1391,140,174,1579,388,690,1447],"class_list":["post-95206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-biography","tag-design","tag-innovation","tag-lordhardthrasher","tag-secrecy","tag-specialforces","tag-strategicbombing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oLA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95206","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=95206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95207,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95206\/revisions\/95207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}