{"id":127066,"date":"2022-06-22T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127066"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:29:23","slug":"final-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127066","title":{"rendered":"Final Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127067 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/c47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><br \/>\n<em>C-47 Skytrain in D-Day livery<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poetrooper sends us the story of a fitting tribute to a WW-II paratrooper, laid to rest. Weather may have caused a change in overall plans, but the fly-over from the Douglas C-47A aircraft was the very plane Army paratrooper PFC Leslie Palmer Cruise Jr. jumped from, some 78 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Poe.<\/p>\n<h3>D-Day paratrooper laid to rest with a flyover tribute from the WWII warplane he had jumped from<\/h3>\n<p><strong>VALERIE RUSS &#8211; THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White clouds dotted the blue skies as a 1943-built World War II airplane soared above the gravesite where former Army paratrooper PFC Leslie Palmer Cruise Jr. was laid to rest in Ambler Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But the whipping winds caused plans for a veteran paratrooper to jump from the aircraft at the cemetery to be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Some 78 years ago, on June 6, 1944, Cruise, who grew up in a Philadelphia orphanage, had jumped from the very same plane, a twin-propeller Douglas C-47A aircraft, on D-Day into Normandy, France.<\/p>\n<p>The flyover evoked a very emotional response, especially from the Rev. Rick Tyson, the retired pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church who conducted the graveside ceremony at Whitemarsh Memorial Park and Cemetery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas, PFC Cruise. Thanks, Poe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-47 Skytrain in D-Day livery Poetrooper sends us the story of a fitting tribute to a &hellip; <a title=\"Final Flight\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127066\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final Flight<\/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":[359,406,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-guest-link","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127066","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=127066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}