{"id":80239,"date":"2018-06-29T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80239"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:32:42","slug":"b17-crew-come-home-to-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80239","title":{"rendered":"B17 crew comes home to Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80240\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80240\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B17-crew-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B17-crew-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B17-crew-500x296.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/B17-crew.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>DocV sends us a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/5-wwii-airmen-who-died-during-mission-in-germany-buried-together-at-arlington-1.535074\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> tells the story of the B17 crew, First Lt. John Liekhus, Tech Sgt. John Brady, Tech Sgt. Allen Chandler, Staff Sgt. Bobby Younger, and Staff Sgt. Robert Shoemaker, that was interred together at Arlington this week after they were recovered from a crash site where they were left after they were shot down on November 2, 1944;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army Air Forces airmen were members of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), Eighth Air Force. On Nov. 2, 1944, they were part of a nine-man crew that joined an armada of bombers on a mission to Merseburg, Germany and the Leuna Werke, a sprawling chemical factory that produced synthetic fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Their B-17 was hit by flak, or ground, anti-aircraft fire, according to the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency. As the B-17 fell out of formation, German fighters attacked. Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft burst into flames and then descend rapidly. Three crewmembers survived the crash and were taken prisoner. One of the airmen killed was identified in May 1945; the other five crewmembers were declared missing in action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Wednesday, they returned to US soil and were interred together at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DocV sends us a link to Stars &#038; Stripes tells the story of the B17 crew, &hellip; <a title=\"B17 crew comes home to Arlington\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80239\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B17 crew comes home to Arlington<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80239","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\/80239","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=80239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}