{"id":34925,"date":"2013-04-04T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34925"},"modified":"2013-04-04T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:27:25","slug":"lt-john-e-terpning-we-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34925","title":{"rendered":"Lt. John E. Terpning; we never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. John E. Terpning\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the 3rd Infantry Regiment laid to rest at Arlington 1Lt. John E. Terpning whose B-24 Liberator, Toughy, on May 7, 1944 left the airbase at Nadzab, New Guinea and soon after crashed in the jungle below. Toughy and it&#8217;s crew wasn&#8217;t found until 1973. Lt Terpning&#8217;s earthly remains weren&#8217;t identified until this year when DNA testing matched his to his brother, Howard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/100227\/Army_B_24_Liberator_pilot_missing_from_WWII_laid_to_rest_at_Arlington\/\">From Army.mil<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, in keeping with the Army&#8217;s mandate that no Soldier is left behind, and under full military honors, horse-drawn caisson, escort platoon, casket team, firing party and bugler to play Taps, 1st Lt. John E. Terpning from Mount Prospect, Ill., was repatriated and interred to his final place of rest at Arlington National Cemetery. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes, it&#8217;s a long journey home.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning1-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. John E. Terpning1\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning1-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lt.-John-E.-Terpning1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the 3rd Infantry Regiment laid to rest at Arlington 1Lt. John E. Terpning whose B-24 &hellip; <a title=\"Lt. John E. Terpning; we never forget\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34925\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lt. John E. Terpning; we never forget<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925","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=34925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}