{"id":382,"date":"2012-06-27T19:25:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=382"},"modified":"2012-06-27T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:27:56","slug":"the-dambusters-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/airscene-competitions\/the-dambusters-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dambusters Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 17th 1943 the Royal Air Force carried out one of the most remarkable raids ever undertaken by any aircrew. On that night a squadron of Lancaster heavy bombers flew at low level across a blacked out Europe, towards the four great dams that delivered water and power to the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr.<\/p>\n<p>That raid is immortalised on the front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafmuseumshop.com\/node\/2317\" target=\"_blank\">Dambusters T Shirt<\/a>, and is being given away as runners up prizes in this years Calendar Competition, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/cosford\/\" target=\"_blank\">RAF Museum Cosford.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For full prize table so far, and to enter\u00a0this years competition please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/competitions\/2013calendar.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/competitions\/2013calendar.php<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=airscene\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 17th 1943 the Royal Air Force carried out one of the most remarkable raids ever undertaken by any aircrew. On that night a squadron of Lancaster heavy bombers flew at low level across a blacked out Europe, towards the four great dams that delivered water and power to the German industrial heartland of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/airscene-competitions\/the-dambusters-raid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dambusters Raid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[143,23,6,33,28],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airscene-competitions","tag-143","tag-airscene","tag-airshow","tag-calendar","tag-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}