{"id":16103,"date":"2016-06-09T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16103"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:19:04","slug":"world-war-ii-history-separating-fact-from-fiction-about-the-polish-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/world-war-ii-history-separating-fact-from-fiction-about-the-polish-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II History: Separating Fact from Fiction About the Polish Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gkmGjWu9EEM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/gkmGjWu9EEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"4b53\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">When the 1950s T.V. documentary series <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Air Power <\/em>got around to covering the opening battles of World War II, it unfortunately reinforced a popular, and entirely incorrect, notion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6fd3\" class=\"graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\">\u201cThe Polish air force is caught on the ground,\u201d narrator Walter Cronkite grumbled over images of German bombers pummeling Polish installations. \u201cThe Polish air force is destroyed in three days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"dfb8\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">That\u2019s exactly what Nazi propaganda reported after the German conquest of Poland in 1939. But it turns out Nazi propaganda wasn\u2019t <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">entirely<\/em> honest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"b2e6\" class=\"graf--figure graf-after--p\"><\/figure>\n<p id=\"d994\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--figure\">Despite being badly out-classed <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">and<\/em> out-numbered three-to-one, Polish fighters shot down a large number German aircraft in the chaotic early days of the conflict. Warsaw\u2019s air arm resisted effectively for nearly a week\u200a\u2014\u200aand, at reduced capacity, continued fighting for more than <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">two<\/em> weeks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1643\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">That\u2019s a Hell of a lot more than three days.<\/p>\n<p id=\"018c\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">The German Luftwaffe certainly <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">made<\/em> <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">an effort<\/em> to destroy Polish aviation on the ground\u200a\u2014\u200abut the stubborn Poles refused to just roll over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/warisboring.com\/its-a-myth-that-germany-wiped-out-the-polish-air-force-in-three-days-in-1939-71adc5c3a7d1#.otmn91nt9\"> War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the 1950s T.V. documentary series Air Power got around to covering the opening battles of World War II, it unfortunately reinforced a popular, and entirely incorrect, notion. \u201cThe Polish air force is caught on the ground,\u201d narrator Walter Cronkite grumbled over images of German bombers pummeling Polish installations. \u201cThe Polish air force is destroyed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,1286,1899],"tags":[12150,12151,4667,12152,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}