{"id":2650,"date":"2025-05-08T02:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:41:12","slug":"ve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"VE Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2651\" src=\"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VE-Day-1024x828.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VE-Day-1024x828.png 1024w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VE-Day-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VE-Day-768x621.png 768w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VE-Day-1536x1242.png 1536w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VE-Day.png 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>Lincolnshire, England. C. 1945-05. Crews of No. 463 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF and No. 467 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF, who throughout the day had flown more than 500 Allied liberated prisoners of war (POWs) in German camps back to England, celebrate a belated Victory in Europe (VE) day (1945-05-08) in their station mess, RAF Station Waddington. Flight Lieutenant M. F. Colvin, of Edinburgh; 280728 Wing Commander Kemp, of Hampton, Vic; 417351 Flying Officer (FO) R. G. Douglass, of Renmark, SA; 35963 FO L. M. Field, of Forbes, NSW; 415904 FO R. Iddon, of Perth, WA; Squadron Leader J. Burkhard, of Sydney, NSW; 422932 FO J. Cole, of Sydney, NSW.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincolnshire, England. C. 1945-05. Crews of No. 463 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF and No. 467 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF, who throughout the day had flown more than 500 Allied liberated prisoners of war (POWs) in German camps back to England, celebrate a belated Victory in Europe (VE) day (1945-05-08) in their station mess, RAF Station Waddington. Flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}