{"id":74031,"date":"2017-08-16T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74031"},"modified":"2017-08-15T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:58:23","slug":"ssg-william-turner-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74031","title":{"rendered":"SSG William Turner comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74032\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74032\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/William-Turner-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/William-Turner-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/William-Turner-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/William-Turner.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/08\/15\/remains-ww-ii-hells-fury-crew-member-return-after-74-years.html\">a link to the story<\/a> of Staff Sergeant William Turner who made the journey home to Tennessee from the Netherlands after his B-26 bomber, nicknamed &#8220;Hell&#8217;s Fury&#8221;, went down on December 13, 1943 on a bombing run from Essex, England to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Only the plane&#8217;s pilot, Ray Sanford, survived the crash, but spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2017\/08\/14\/remains-world-war-ii-vet-nashville-hells-fury-bomber-return-after-70-years\/566408001\/\">The Tennessean<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The remains of six crew members were recovered, but only two crew members were able to be identified between 1946 and 1949, according to a release from the state. Unidentifiable remains from that crash and another crash were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Jan. 29, 1951.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s earthly remains will be interred on Tuesday, August 22nd;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Tennessee Governor, Bill] Haslam has declared a day of mourning and ordered flags at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Tuesday, Aug. 22 in Turner&#8217;s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Graveside service will be at the Nashville National Cemetery at 1420 Gallatin Pike S, Madison, at 10 a.m. (CDT) on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Turner is survived by his cousins Linda Tinsley of Murfreesboro, Jeff Kemper of Smithville, and Rita Williams of Cottontown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us a link to the story of Staff Sergeant William Turner who made the &hellip; <a title=\"SSG William Turner comes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74031\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSG William Turner comes home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031","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=74031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}