{"id":21407,"date":"2010-12-07T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21407"},"modified":"2010-12-07T06:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:59:44","slug":"david-baillie-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21407","title":{"rendered":"David Baillie II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/David-Baillie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21395 aligncenter\" title=\"David Baillie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/David-Baillie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/David-Baillie.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/David-Baillie-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/phonies707.htm\">POW Network<\/a> have been at it again. While I got several tips on this guy, Mary and Chuck were already doing the detective work on David Baille. Someone sent me the FOIA on him last night;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Baillie-FOIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21408\" title=\"Baillie FOIA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Baillie-FOIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it looks like he missed the Korean War by three years and one Good Conduct Medal was his only award. According to the unit history of the 9th Cav, they returned from Korea with the rest of the First Cav Division about the time he got there and were reactivated at Fort Knox. However, the APO address was assigned to the 24th Infantry Division and he admits that he was in the 24th <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~scottie16\/index.html\">at his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can find some history of a Specialist 3rd Class rank before the Second World War &#8211; it was an E-2 with extra pay &#8211; but none afterward, so I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on there. I&#8217;m pretty sure that they didn&#8217;t wear Sergeant Major rank, though.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ROS, 1stCavRVN11B, Sporkmaster and Stingerwooten for keeping me up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the folks at POW Network have been at it again. While I got several tips &hellip; <a title=\"David Baillie II\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21407\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Baillie II<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}