{"id":22776,"date":"2021-05-03T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22776"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T14:12:49","slug":"what-you-gonna-do-when-you-get-out-of-jail-part-398","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22776","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat you gonna do when you get out of jail?\u2026\u201d part 398"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military History Monday!<\/p>\n<p>I have another doctor&#8217;s appointment early this afternoon, and didn&#8217;t have a chance to set this up yesterday, so I&#8217;m being shorter than usual today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Target Toyko&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzQmTjDPL5c&#038;list=WL&#038;index=132\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;the story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces flying out of Saipan. B-29 crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extra bonus: the narrator is Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzQmTjDPL5c\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus #1: &#8220;Position Firing&#8221;, an animated 1944 Army Air Corps film about hitting moving targets.<\/p>\n<p>Extra bonus: &#8220;Trigger Joe&#8221; is voiced by Mel Blanc.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWYqu1Il9Ps\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus #2: &#8220;Arctic Mission&#8221;. This is yet another Bell System (actually Western Electric) propaganda film, but I think it more appropriately belongs here: it covers the construction of the DEW Line, and specifically deals with the difficulties of construction and transport above the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUtpE6zJJzI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military History Monday! I have another doctor&#8217;s appointment early this afternoon, and didn&#8217;t have a chance to set this up yesterday, so I&#8217;m being shorter than usual today. &#8220;Target Toyko&#8221;: &#8230;the story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces flying out of Saipan. B-29 crews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22781,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776\/revisions\/22781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}