{"id":2265,"date":"2010-09-07T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2010-09-07T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:44:19","slug":"battle-of-britain-airplane-flypast-over-london-remembers-the-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/battle-of-britain-airplane-flypast-over-london-remembers-the-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Britain flypast as London remembers the Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/battle-of-britain-flypast.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Britain flypast over London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the shonky photos &#8211; trying to capture the Battle of Britain flypast over St Paul&#8217;s reminded me of just how small the World War 2 aircraft were &#8211; especially the iconic Spitfire which appeared as a tiny speck in the sky from Brixton.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember the contribution and sacrifice made by those brave pilots during those dark times, so here&#8217;s my (fairly hopeless) photo tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Above, you can see a Dakota flying past the Strata tower, in Elephant and Castle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/battle-of-britain-flypast-1.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Britain flypast over London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Lancaster bomber and tiny Spitfire in the skies of London.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/battle-of-britain-flypast-2.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Britain flypast over London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flying over the Barbican towers, with the dome of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral visible to the left.<\/p>\n<p>Marking the 70th anniversary of the German &#8216;blitz&#8217; bombing campaign, a remembrance service\u00a0 was taking place in the cathedral, with pilots, firefighters, nurses and ambulance workers attending.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/battle-of-britain-flypast-3.jpg\" alt=\"Battle of Britain flypast over London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11209078\" target=\"_blank\">BBC feature<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the shonky photos &#8211; trying to capture the Battle of Britain flypast over St Paul&#8217;s reminded me of just how small the World War 2 aircraft were &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-flyplast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/battle-of-britain-flypast.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}