{"id":978,"date":"2012-05-27T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T21:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2012-05-27T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T21:57:58","slug":"in-the-news-bohuslav-kimlicka-one-of-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Bohuslav Kimlicka&#8211;One of the Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=977\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-977\" title=\"Dark Blue World\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wdarkblueworld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wdarkblueworld.jpg 213w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wdarkblueworld-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Bohuslav Kimlicka flew with the Czech air force, defending his country from the Nazi invasion of 1938. Afterwards, he fought with the French, attempting to stem the 1940 German <em>Blitzkrieg<\/em> , and then with the Royal Air Force. His descendants recently uncovered his wartime logbook and, according to <em>The Telegraph<\/em> newspaper,\u00a0he was officially added to the list of pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain&#8212;the famous <em>Few<\/em>&#8212;some seventy-two years after the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The 2001 movie <em>Dark Blue World<\/em> tells of the Czech pilots who fought with the RAF, and of the sad fate of those who returned home\u00a0to postwar Communist Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Tally-ho, Bohuslav. You were a decent chap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bohuslav Kimlicka flew with the Czech air force, defending his country from the Nazi invasion of 1938. Afterwards, he fought with the French, attempting to stem the 1940 German Blitzkrieg , and then with the Royal Air Force. His descendants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=978\">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":[30,1],"tags":[73,72,71],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-world-war-ii","tag-battle-of-britain","tag-blitzkrieg","tag-bohuslav-kimlicka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}