{"id":74869,"date":"2024-05-26T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=74869"},"modified":"2024-05-26T07:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:19:54","slug":"know-your-obscure-ww2-history-did-you-know-a-man-died-during-ww2-because-he-resembled-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/26\/know-your-obscure-ww2-history-did-you-know-a-man-died-during-ww2-because-he-resembled-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Obscure WW2 History: Did You Know a Man Died During WW2 because he resembled Churchill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74870 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill-789x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill-768x997.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill-300x389.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill-850x1103.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Churchill.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beachesofnormandy.com\/didyouknow\/Did_you_know_a_man_died_during_World_War_II_because_he_resembled_Churchill\/?id=4ff02fe15c\">Did You Know a Man Died During WW2 Because he resembled Churchill?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>This story reminded me of the classic 1976 WW2 Movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074452\/\"><em>The Eagle has Landed<\/em><\/a> (based on the novel by Jack Higgins) where a body double was used for Churchill as a lure for a possible kidnap attempt.<\/h2>\n<h2>In the movie, the body double was a stage actor named &#8216;George Fowler&#8217;.<\/h2>\n<h2>You might consider re-watching this classic for Memorial Day.<\/h2>\n<h2>You really cannot beat Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Donald Sutherland together.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did You Know a Man Died During WW2 Because he resembled Churchill? &nbsp; This story reminded me of the classic 1976 WW2 Movie The Eagle has Landed (based on the novel by Jack Higgins) where a body double was used for Churchill as a lure for a possible kidnap attempt. In the movie, the body&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[478,479,6096,5662,4029,5423,1899,1900,5786],"tags":[951,8798,12072,17446,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74869"}],"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=74869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74873,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74869\/revisions\/74873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}