{"id":48251,"date":"2022-08-10T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48251"},"modified":"2024-11-09T06:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:17:17","slug":"the-decisions-that-polish-raf-pilots-had-to-make-during-an-aerial-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/10\/the-decisions-that-polish-raf-pilots-had-to-make-during-an-aerial-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"The decisions that Polish RAF pilots had to make during an aerial combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking part in an aerial combat requires a series of tactics and correct decisions to achieve a certain advantage that allows you to win.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/21\/a-curious-footage-of-a-german-fighter-messerschmitt-bf-109-captured-by-the-raf\/\">A curious footage of a German fighter Messerschmitt Bf-109 captured by the RAF<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>During the Battle of Britain (1940), in World War II, <strong>the pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF) used all their ingenuity to face the Luftwaffe<\/strong>, which outnumbered them . In addition to the British pilots themselves defending their homeland, <strong>among the 66 RAF fighter squadrons that took part in that battle were many units made up of foreign pilots<\/strong>, some of them from occupied countries for the Third Reich. <strong>There were a total of 16 Polish squadrons<\/strong>, in which 145 pilots of that nationality served who managed to reach the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most famous unit of the Battle of Britain was the Polish 303 Squadron<\/strong>, which was the most successful RAF squadron during that battle: it made a total of 126 kills. A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TJ3Gaming\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TJ3 History<\/a> published <strong>an interesting video that places us in the cockpit of a Hawker Hurricane of that Polish squadron<\/strong>, showing us the decisions that the pilots had to make during a dogfight:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Could YOU Survive a Dogfight During the Battle of Britain?\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j1yKTjtIeC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video is very well made<\/strong>, but the last decision it proposes is really difficult, to tell the truth... \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking part in an aerial combat requires a series of tactics and correct decisions to achieve a certain advantage that allows you to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11549],"tags":[17166,17165,17174,10370,14051,3366,10678,10389],"class_list":["post-48251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-military-history","tag-303-squadron-raf","tag-battle-of-britain","tag-hawker-hurricane","tag-poland","tag-polish-air-force","tag-royal-air-force-raf","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}