{"id":88843,"date":"2019-08-10T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T11:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88843"},"modified":"2019-08-04T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T12:47:31","slug":"88843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88843","title":{"rendered":"Funerals for FM1c Billie J. Johnson and SSgt Wesley R. Kroenung (World War II); and CPL William S. Smith (Korea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85309\"><i>This February<\/i><\/a>, DPAA announced that it had accounted for FM1c Billy J. Johnson, US Navy.  FM1c Johnson was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941.<\/p>\n<p>FM1c Johnson will be buried on Wednesday, 19 August, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for his funeral services or interment.<\/p>\n<p>If any TAH readers have the precise location for FM1c Johnson\u2019s funeral services, please post it in comments below.  And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here\u2019s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.<\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86877\"><i>This May<\/i><\/a>, DPAA announced that it had accounted for SSgt Wesley L. Kroenung, USMC.  SSgt Kroenung was lost on Tarawa on 20 November 1943.<\/p>\n<p>SSgt Kroenung will be buried next week \u2013 on Wednesday, 14 August \u2013 in Miramar National Cemetery.  Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for his funeral services.<\/p>\n<p>If any TAH readers have the precise location for SSgt Kroenung\u2019s funeral services, please post it in comments below.  And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here\u2019s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.<\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87681\"><i>This June<\/i><\/a>, DPAA announced that it had accounted for CPL William S. Smith, US Army.  CPL Smith was lost in South Korea on 1 September 1950.<\/p>\n<p>CPL Smith will be buried next week \u2013 on Saturday, 17 August \u2013 in Vidalia, Georgia.  Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for his funeral services or interment.<\/p>\n<p>If any TAH readers have the precise location for CPL Smith\u2019s funeral services, please post it in comments below.  And if any readers are in the area and have the time, here\u2019s an opportunity to give someone lost during the Korean War a proper final send-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This February, DPAA announced that it had accounted for FM1c Billy J. Johnson, US Navy. FM1c &hellip; <a title=\"Funerals for FM1c Billie J. Johnson and SSgt Wesley R. Kroenung (World War II); and CPL William S. Smith (Korea)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88843\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funerals for FM1c Billie J. Johnson and SSgt Wesley R. Kroenung (World War II); and CPL William S. Smith (Korea)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89547,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843\/revisions\/89547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}