{"id":2623,"date":"2012-09-09T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2012-09-09T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T08:21:06","slug":"the-raf-pilots-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-raf-pilots-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The RAF Pilots’ Song, Plus Some WWII Girl Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that, during the Second World War, some of the brave fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force formed their own boy band<\/a>? And, when not shooting down Luftwaffe bombers, would dance in front of their Spitfires, singing harmonies about, among other things, Douglas Bader’s legs (“They’re not real”)? No, neither did I!1<\/a><\/sup> But I think Toby FitzOsborne would approve. Take that, Hitler!<\/p>\n

And let’s not forget the contributions made by British women during the war. If you think they were all stuck in the kitchen, you haven’t seen this<\/a>! Or read The FitzOsbornes at War<\/em>, which is all about girls being awesome in wartime, and is published in North America next month, and looks like this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Thank you to Kate Constable, whose informative and entertaining blog post<\/a> alerted me to the fact that the Horrible Histories<\/em> books have now been turned into a TV series. I had no idea! I would have left a comment on her blog post as well, but Blogspot doesn’t like me and refuses to accept my comments. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Did you know that, during the Second World War, some of the brave fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force formed their own boy band? And, when not shooting down Luftwaffe bombers, would dance in front of their Spitfires, singing harmonies about, among other things, Douglas Bader’s legs (“They’re not real”)? No, neither did I!1 … Continue reading The RAF Pilots’ Song, Plus Some WWII Girl Power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-and-tv","category-the-montmaray-journals","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}