{"id":69462,"date":"2016-12-19T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69462"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:53:22","slug":"william-thomas-phony-b17-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69462","title":{"rendered":"William Thomas, phony B17 pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69463\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomas_william_Blackie-217x333.jpg\" alt=\"thomas_william_Blackie\" width=\"217\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomas_william_Blackie-217x333.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomas_william_Blackie-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/thomas_william_Blackie.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, William Thomas who likes to tell stories about being a B17 pilot during World War II around Northport, New York;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69464\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/william-thomas-cowboy-outfit-001-458x333.jpg\" alt=\"william thomas cowboy outfit  001\" width=\"458\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/william-thomas-cowboy-outfit-001-458x333.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/william-thomas-cowboy-outfit-001-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/william-thomas-cowboy-outfit-001-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The truth is that William joined the Army a year after World War II ended in September, 1946 and he was discharged in December 1949 as a private. It looks like he had more than 90 days of bad time to make up during his service;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69465\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Discharge-296x333.jpg\" alt=\"William Thomas Discharge\" width=\"296\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Discharge-296x333.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Discharge-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Discharge-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Discharge.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69466\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Separation-Qualification-Record-296x333.jpg\" alt=\"William Thomas Separation Qualification Record\" width=\"296\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Separation-Qualification-Record-296x333.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Separation-Qualification-Record-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Separation-Qualification-Record-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/William-Thomas-Separation-Qualification-Record.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Instead of being a pilot, Private Thomas was a photolab technician for most of his service time, when he wasn&#8217;t in the brig or AWOL or whatever the 90 days bad time was. I wonder how many years before the internet existed that he told those stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, William Thomas who likes to tell stories about &hellip; <a title=\"William Thomas, phony B17 pilot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69462\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Thomas, phony B17 pilot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69462","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=69462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}