{"id":27533,"date":"2014-01-06T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27533"},"modified":"2016-10-01T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:52:25","slug":"spitfire-944-wwii-recon-pilot-sees-videos-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/spitfire-944-wwii-recon-pilot-sees-videos-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Spitfire 944: WWII Recon Pilot Sees Videos for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ie3SrjLlcUY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Spitfire 944 is a short documentary with an Honorable Mention from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It was highlighted in May as part of a Memorial Day post by the Sundance website.<\/p>\n<p>The film was spurred by the discover of old 16mm videos taken by a now deceased military doctor in 1944. A relative who found the films was able to <!--more-->track down LtCol John Blyth, who appears in the film as he bellies in his Spitfire following an unarmed reconnaissance mission into Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The film is fascinating, from both a historical perspective of aviation in World War II, from the human perspective of watching the retired LtCol Blyth see himself in video &#8212; which he sees for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY\">YouTube video<\/a> of the documentary now has over a million views.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/madpadre.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/spitfire-944-war-and-remembrance.html\">Mad Padre<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spitfire 944 is a short documentary with an Honorable Mention from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It was highlighted in May as part of a Memorial Day post by the Sundance website. The film was spurred by the discover of old 16mm videos taken by a now deceased military doctor in 1944. A relative who found the films was able [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,88,5285,4546,2,4544,4545,123],"class_list":["post-27533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-john-blyth","tag-military","tag-spitfire-944","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}