{"id":83272,"date":"2018-12-05T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83272"},"modified":"2018-12-05T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:28:34","slug":"world-war-ii-b-24-pilot-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83272","title":{"rendered":"World War II B-24 Pilot Laid To Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70095 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/westmoreland\/14368637-74\/long-lost-wwii-pilot-from-derry-finally-buried-in-arlington-national-cemetery\">The Tribune Review\u00a0<\/a>reports the remains of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/11\/15\/wwii-bomber-pilots-remains-recovered-through-international-efforts-will-join-those-of-his-son-at-arlington\/\">Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Eugene P. Ford<\/a>\u00a0were interred Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Also interred were ashes of Vietnam veteran Richard Stanton Ford, the son the pilot never met.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Ford, of Latrobe, PA, was the pilot of a B-24J aircraft known as the Tulsamerican.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 17, 1944, the Tulsamerican was the lead aircraft targeting oil refineries in Germany when it came under attack and was forced to crash in the Adriatic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Military Times link is here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/12\/05\/wwii-pilots-remains-interred-at-arlington-along-with-sons\/\">https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/12\/05\/wwii-pilots-remains-interred-at-arlington-along-with-sons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tribune Review\u00a0reports the remains of\u00a0Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Eugene P. Ford\u00a0were interred Tuesday at &hellip; <a title=\"World War II B-24 Pilot Laid To Rest\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83272\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World War II B-24 Pilot Laid To Rest<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlington-national-cemetary","category-no-longer-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83272","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}