{"id":69273,"date":"2016-12-06T11:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69273"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:25:42","slug":"willie-rogers-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69273","title":{"rendered":"Willie Rogers passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/willie-rogers-99-tuskegee-airman-490x333.jpg\" alt=\"Tuskegee Airman Dies\" width=\"490\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/willie-rogers-99-tuskegee-airman-490x333.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/willie-rogers-99-tuskegee-airman-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/willie-rogers-99-tuskegee-airman-768x522.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends us the sad news that 101-year-old Willie Rogers has passed. I verified with our friend, the historian for the Tuskegee Airmen, that Willie was indeed a member of the famed aviators&#8217; unit. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Willie N. Rogers, one of the oldest surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, died Friday from complications of a stroke. He was 101. <\/p>\n<p>The longtime   St. Petersburg, Florida , resident was a member of the original   100th Fighter Squadron  established during   World War II . <\/p>\n<p>He was wounded in action, shot in the stomach and leg by German soldiers, during a mission in Italy in January 1943. Rogers spent three months in a hospital in London before returning to the war, the  Tampa Bay Times reported.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One correction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/articles\/willie-rogers-tuskegee-airman-dies-at-101-after-stroke\">Air Force Times<\/a> story, though; Mr Rogers was a member of the 96th Air Services Squadron, not the 100th Fighter Squadron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends us the sad news that 101-year-old Willie Rogers has passed. I verified with our &hellip; <a title=\"Willie Rogers passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69273\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Willie Rogers passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69273","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=69273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}