{"id":105629,"date":"2020-09-27T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105629"},"modified":"2020-09-27T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T16:27:59","slug":"world-war-ii-was-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105629","title":{"rendered":"World War II Was Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-70163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-500x309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and so was the US Army.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this film was shot in Italy\u2019s Volturno River area, showing us how difficult it was for the Army to build, under lousy weather conditions, a pontoon bridge that would hold up a tank and still stand up to the currents of the Volturno River in winter, and another part shows the Army at work in the South Pacific at the island of New Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The story of that battle is here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-ii\/battle-of-new-britain-rabaul\"> https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-ii\/battle-of-new-britain-rabaul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video with both stories is here:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9FGFoKgLZK4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9FGFoKgLZK4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and so was the US Army. Part of this film was shot in Italy\u2019s Volturno &hellip; <a title=\"World War II Was Everywhere\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105629\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World War II Was Everywhere<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105629","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105631,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105629\/revisions\/105631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}