{"id":3296,"date":"2018-12-17T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T22:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2018-12-17T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T22:14:55","slug":"station-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"Station of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 25 years of research and over a year to compile we are proud to announce the release of \u2018Station Of Nations The History of RAF Balderton 1941-1954\u2019, written by Newark Air Museum trustee and the Research Groups own Colin Savill. Colin is the author of two previous books RAF Winthorpe the Story of an Airfield 1939 -1959 and Preservation Pioneers, Newark Air Museum 1963-2015<\/p>\n<p>The book is entitled\u00a0<strong><em>Station of Nations \u2013 The History of RAF Balderton<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and it is the story of the airfield from its beginnings to its demise as an RAF station.<\/p>\n<p>The book (ISBN 978-1-9996353-0-5) is in a softback format; 298 pages (paper weight: 130gsm); and includes over 200 images \u2013 black &amp; white and colour photographs, maps, document copies and illustrations and includes a Foreword by former Flight Engineer Maurice \u2018Bill\u2019 Bailey who served at Balderton with No.227 Squadron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 25 years of research and over a year to compile we are proud to announce the release of \u2018Station Of Nations The History of RAF Balderton 1941-1954\u2019, written by Newark Air Museum trustee and the Research Groups own Colin Savill. Colin is the author of two previous books RAF Winthorpe the Story of an Airfield 1939 -1959 and Preservation Pioneers, Newark Air Museum 1963-2015 The book is entitled\u00a0Station of Nations \u2013 The History of RAF Balderton\u00a0and it is the story of the airfield from its beginnings to its demise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}