{"id":293,"date":"2015-05-11T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/?p=293"},"modified":"2015-12-18T05:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T05:47:29","slug":"episode-81-doug-smith-dfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/2015\/05\/episode-81-doug-smith-dfc\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 81 &#8211; Doug Smith DFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_256\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-293-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_081_Doug_Smith_DFC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_081_Doug_Smith_DFC.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_081_Doug_Smith_DFC.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_081_Doug_Smith_DFC.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/?powerpress_pinw=293-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_081_Doug_Smith_DFC.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"WONZ_Ep_081_Doug_Smith_DFC.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/wings-over-new-zealand-show\/id606143097?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fcambridgeairforce.org.nz%2FWONZShow%2F%3Fp%3D293\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Guest:<\/strong> Flight Lieutenant Douglas Stanley Peche Smith, DFC (NZ41948)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Dave Homewood<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Duration:<\/strong> 54 minutes, 20 seconds<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Topic:<\/strong> In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 97 year old WWII veteran pilot Flight Lieutenant Doug Smith, DFC, about his vivid and colourful memories from his flying days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Doug, who now lives in Orewa, tells of his background, joining the RNZAF and training, and then his service in England flying Bristol Blenheims and Douglas Bostons with No. 88 Squadron, his conversion to Vickers Wellingtons and then to Avro Lancasters, and his tour of operations with No. 207 Squadron RAF.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He also flew Avro Yorks with the RAF after WWII, then came home to New Zealand and joined National Airways Corporation. With NAC he flew Douglas DC-3&#8217;s, Vickers Viscounts, Fokker Friendships and finally Boeing 737&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/images\/P1190245.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"889\" \/><br \/>\nDoug Smith DFC<\/p>\n<p>By the way the small music clip comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danosongs.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Danosongs<\/a> and is called Magic Ghost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest: Flight Lieutenant Douglas Stanley Peche Smith, DFC (NZ41948)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Host: Dave Homewood<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Duration: 54 minutes, 20 seconds<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 97 year old WWII veteran pilot Flight Lieutenant Doug Smith, DFC, about his vivid and colourful memories from his flying days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Doug, who now lives in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,23,24,89,115,376,412,232,63,64,55,557,11,233,561,562,31,560,558,44,90,5,6,46,87,559,3,86,47],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","tag-aeroplane","tag-aeroplanes","tag-aircraft","tag-aviation","tag-aviation-podcast","tag-avro-lancaster","tag-boeing-737","tag-bristol-blenheim","tag-dakota","tag-dc-3","tag-dfc","tag-doug-smith","tag-douglas","tag-douglas-boston","tag-fokker-friendship","tag-national-airways-corporation","tag-new-zealand","tag-no-207-squadron","tag-no-88-squadron","tag-pilot","tag-podcast","tag-rnzaf","tag-royal-new-zealand-air-force","tag-veteran","tag-veterans","tag-vickers-wellington","tag-wings-over-new-zealand","tag-world-war-two","tag-wwii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}