{"id":4494,"date":"2018-10-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/22\/hidalgo-de-cisneros-adventure\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:00:00","slug":"hidalgo-de-cisneros-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/en\/2018\/10\/22\/hidalgo-de-cisneros-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidalgo de Cisneros&#8217;s adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cisneros-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hidalgo de Cisneros&#039;s adventure\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>18 March 1937. Guadalajara front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten days after the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) launched its offensive towards Guadalajara, the Republican air force ruled the sky. Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, head of the Republic&#8217;s air force, decided to take his own plane up to see the battlefield and the chaos in the Italian lines after that morning&#8217;s bombing. It was reckless: he could easily run into enemy fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is his own account of what happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;One of those days, as I was flying back, tired but pleased with how our pilots had done, I saw a Fiat fighter with fascist markings on my right, and immediately another appeared on my left. As you can imagine, I was terrified. My first feeling was that I had been a fool: how easily they had caught me! I did the only thing I could, a dive almost to the ground, but both Fiats followed and stayed right on me. To my surprise, they did not open fire. I thought they wanted to take me prisoner, but then one of them waved, and I understood. A few days earlier, five Fiats arriving from Italy had landed by mistake at one of our airfields; two managed to escape, but we captured the other three. These two planes were being tested on my orders, but I had forgotten about them, and the mechanics had forgotten to remove the fascist markings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Republican air force finds himself escorted by two Fiat fighters with enemy markings\u2026 which turn out to be his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hqwargames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}