{"id":12961,"date":"2024-06-09T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=12961"},"modified":"2024-06-09T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T19:02:11","slug":"normandy-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=12961","title":{"rendered":"Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft-1536x1183.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Operation-Overlord-Aircraft.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eighty years ago today, three German divisions faced off against the entire British invasion force, though the Allied air support and ground anti-tank guns put the worry to the defenders.  The Americans focused on taking out artillery positions harassing the ongoing landing of troops, while the air support fought off Luftwaffe counter-attacks.  Allied aircraft over Normandy flew with distinctive striping to keep the not-so-friendly-fire incidents in previous invasions from repeating themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years ago today, three German divisions faced off against the entire British invasion force, though the Allied air support and ground anti-tank guns put the worry to the defenders. The Americans focused on taking out artillery positions harassing the[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=12961\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}