{"id":1409,"date":"2016-09-09T21:44:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T03:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2016-09-09T21:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T03:44:38","slug":"this-is-how-british-pilots-made-beer-runs-for-troops-in-normandy-during-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"This is how British pilots made beer runs for troops in Normandy during World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/british-pilots-beer-runs-world-war-ii-2016-9?amp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/this-is-how-british-pilots-made-beer-runs-for-troops-in-normandy-during-world-war-ii.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These kegs, often called \u2018beer bombs,\u2019 were standard wooden kegs with a specially-designed nose cone and attachments for transport under the wing of the Spitfire. Though they carried less beer, it arrived tasting like it just came out of the tap at the pub, chilled by the altitude of the flight over the channel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/articles\/this-is-how-british-pilots-made-beer-runs-for-troops-in-normandy\">This is how British pilots made beer runs for troops in Normandy during World War II<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These kegs, often called \u2018beer bombs,\u2019 were standard wooden kegs with a specially-designed nose cone and attachments for transport under the wing of the Spitfire. Though they carried less beer, it arrived tasting like it just came out of the tap at the pub, chilled by the altitude of the flight over the channel. Source: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=1409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how British pilots made beer runs for troops in Normandy during World War II<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}