{"id":131689,"date":"2022-10-04T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=131689"},"modified":"2022-10-04T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:07:31","slug":"last-wwii-marine-ace-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131689","title":{"rendered":"Last WWII Marine Ace Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131690 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/dean-caswell-austin-tx-obituary-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/dean-caswell-austin-tx-obituary-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/dean-caswell-austin-tx-obituary-216x333.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/dean-caswell-austin-tx-obituary.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Col. Dean Caswell USMC (Ret.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jeff LPH 3 sends us the sad news of the passing of last living American Marine Corps fighter ace of World War II. Dean Caswell (1922-2022) fought in World War II, the Korean and the Vietnam wars. He retired from the Corps in 1968 at the rank of Colonel.<br \/>\nCol. Dean was awarded a Silver Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses with three gold stars, an Air Medal with four gold stars and a Congressional Gold Medal. He flew over 10,000 hours and served in 110 combat missions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/veterans\/2022\/10\/03\/last-world-war-2-marine-flying-ace-dies-leaves-legacy-of-service\/?utm_source=sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=marine-dnr\">Marine Corps Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/obituaries\/austin-tx\/dean-caswell-10939431\">Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas, Marine.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Jeff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col. Dean Caswell USMC (Ret.) Jeff LPH 3 sends us the sad news of the passing &hellip; <a title=\"Last WWII Marine Ace Passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131689\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last WWII Marine Ace Passes<\/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":[642,406,184,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair-winds-and-following-seas","category-guest-link","category-marine-corps","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131689","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=131689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}