{"id":6367,"date":"2017-07-07T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2017-07-07T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T02:17:55","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-2-8-july-1945-ivan-lyon-and-z-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6367","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 2&#8211;8 July 1945: Ivan Lyon and Z Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6366\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6366\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6366\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6366\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WIvanLyon-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WIvanLyon-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WIvanLyon-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WIvanLyon.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan Lyon enjoying a beer with friends, Brisbane 1944 [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war saw the final and sad end of Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon&#8217;s Z Force.<\/p>\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=4963\">fall of Singapore<\/a>, Lyon had served with special forces (British, Australian and Free French) that were fighting behind the Japanese lines.<\/p>\n<p>In September 1943, he led a successful raid against Japanese shipping in Singapore harbor.<\/p>\n<p>He died while engaged in a similar raid in October 1944.<\/p>\n<p>All of the members of Z Force were eventually killed or captured. Those captured were executed by beheading on 7 July 1945.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once over twenty strong, Z Force had begun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war saw the final and sad end of Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon&#8217;s Z Force. Since the fall of Singapore, Lyon had served with special forces (British, Australian and Free French) that were fighting behind the Japanese &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1102,650,1103],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-ivan-lyon","tag-singapore","tag-z-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}