{"id":3238,"date":"2017-05-19T01:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2017-05-25T04:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:34:40","slug":"jim-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/2017\/05\/jim-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 146 &#8211; Jim Richmond &#8211; Wartime RNZAF Meteorologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3824\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3238-1\" 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_146_Jim_Richmond.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_146_Jim_Richmond.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_146_Jim_Richmond.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_146_Jim_Richmond.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/?powerpress_pinw=3238-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_146_Jim_Richmond.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"WONZ_Ep_146_Jim_Richmond.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%3D3238\" 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:\u00a0<\/strong>James Callister &#8216;Jim&#8217; Richmond (10 January 1915 &#8211; 8 September 2013)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hosts:<\/strong>\u00a0Dave Homewood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recorded:<\/strong>\u00a03rd of June 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Released: <\/strong>\u00a019th of May 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration:<\/strong>\u00a032 minutes 15 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Jim Richmond was a Meteorologist in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War Two. He served at RNZAF Station Waipapakauri, with No. 7 (GR) Squadron, then No. 9 (GR) Squadron at Plaine des Gaiacs in New Caledonia, Espiritu Santo, and Guadalcanal. He also served on many stations around New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Jim recalled his personal connection with the tragic Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash at Whenuapai. He also explains the methods they used to predict the weather around New Zealand and the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>This interview was conducted with Jim in his resthome at Onewa Lodge, Birkenhead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3242 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond.jpg 474w, https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond-400x301.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>The late Jim Richmond in June 2010<a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jim-Richmond.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closing Music is &#8216;Fog&#8217; by Sergey Cheremisnov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest: James Callister &#8216;Jim&#8217; Richmond (10 January 1915 &#8211; 8 September 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Hosts: Dave Homewood<\/p>\n<p>Recorded: 3rd of June 2010<\/p>\n<p>Released: 19th of May 2017<\/p>\n<p>Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Jim Richmond was a Meteorologist in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War Two. He served at RNZAF Station Waipapakauri, with No. 7 [&#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":[85,793,806,340,1091,1418,1417,1423,1419,31,1424,917,815,1425,1421,5,881,1092,192,46,904,1426,1422,1420,78,916,47],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","tag-air-force","tag-b-17","tag-crash","tag-dave-homewood","tag-guadalcanal","tag-james-richmond","tag-jim-richmond","tag-met","tag-meteorologist","tag-new-zealand","tag-office","tag-over","tag-pacific","tag-plaine-des-gaiacs","tag-prediction","tag-rnzaf","tag-royal","tag-santo","tag-show","tag-veteran","tag-vildebeest","tag-vincent","tag-waipapakauri","tag-weather","tag-whenuapai","tag-wings","tag-wwii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}