{"id":103717,"date":"2020-08-15T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103717"},"modified":"2020-08-15T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T14:45:53","slug":"103717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103717","title":{"rendered":"USS Essex Carries Load Of World War II Warbirds To Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103718 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uss-essex-warbirds-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uss-essex-warbirds-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uss-essex-warbirds-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uss-essex-warbirds-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uss-essex-warbirds-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/uss-essex-warbirds.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>USS Essex carrying vintage World War II warplanes into Hawaii.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cranes began hoisting the 14 World War II-era warbirds from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex Tuesday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. In two weeks they will take part in a series of aerial parades over Oahu to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the war\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>The collection of warbirds made the journey from San Diego, along with some owners and maintenance crews of the planes.<\/p>\n<p>The first two flyovers are scheduled for the afternoons of Aug. 29 and 30. The routes have not yet been announced, but planners have said one will likely be viewable from Waikiki Beach, while the other will be over the western part of Oahu.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"m-detail-header--title\">A Navy flattop just rolled up in Hawaii laden with World War II-era warbirds<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Author: JARED KELLER<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Navy flattop just arrived in Hawaii with an unusual cargo: a fleet of World War II-era warbirds.<\/p>\n<p>The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex arrived in Hawaii&#8217;s Pearl Harbor \u2014 site of the infamous Japanese surprise attack of December 7, 1941 \u2014 laden with a handful of vintage aircraft on Monday, according to the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The warbirds are set to take part in a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII from Aug. 29 to Sep. 2, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, with some 30 U.S. military veterans of the conflict expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>While the 844-foot Essex normally hosts aircraft advanced aircraft like the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, her current cargo consists of a B-25 bomber, two PBY Catalina flying boats, an SNJ\/AT-6 Texan, four AT-6 Texans, an FM2 Wildcat, F8F Bearcat, Stearman biplane, TBM Avenger, P-51 Mustang and a T-28 Trojan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire article may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/history\/world-war-ii-warbirds-uss-essex-hawaii\">Task and Purpose<\/a><br \/>\nThanks to Boomer for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Essex carrying vintage World War II warplanes into Hawaii.\u00a0 Cranes began hoisting the 14 World &hellip; <a title=\"USS Essex Carries Load Of World War II Warbirds To Hawaii\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103717\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Essex Carries Load Of World War II Warbirds To Hawaii<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,12,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-gathering-of-eagles","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103717","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103722,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103717\/revisions\/103722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}