{"id":103353,"date":"2020-08-07T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103353"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:02:57","slug":"uss-essex-ferries-vintage-warbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103353","title":{"rendered":"USS Essex ferries vintage warbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103354\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103354 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296200-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296200-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296200-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296200-1024x683-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296200-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stearman biplane in in front of USS Essex (LHD-2) (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christina Ross\/Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>USS Essex (LHD-2), has left San Diego enroute to Pearl Harbor for the biennial multinational Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2020 exercise. COVID forced the cancellation of the aerial component of RIMPAC, so the Marines aboard Essex didn&#8217;t embark their air assets. This empty deck space won&#8217;t go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Timed perfectly with the 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan (VJ) Day, Essex, like her WWII namesake, is ferrying several vintage warbirds to the Hawaiian islands to participate in a series of flyovers to commemorate the end of World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser, planes include\u00a0\u201cfive AT-6\/SNJ advanced trainers, two PBY Catalina flying boats, the B-25 bomber, an FM-2 Wildcat, an F8F Bearcat, a P-51 Mustang, a Stearman biplane, a TBM Avenger and a T-28 Trojan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More, including video of one of the Wildcats being loaded at the source link.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103355\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296198-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296198-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296198-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296198-1024x683-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6296198-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bearcat being onloaded aboard USS Essex for a future event. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christina Ross\/Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The dedicated crews and maintainers for these warbirds voluntarily went through a two week quarantine at San Diego to help stop the spread of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Source;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/navy-ships\/a33524836\/uss-essex-taxi-wwii-warbirds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Essex (LHD-2), has left San Diego enroute to Pearl Harbor for the biennial multinational Rim &hellip; <a title=\"USS Essex ferries vintage warbirds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103353\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Essex ferries vintage warbirds<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103356,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103353\/revisions\/103356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}