{"id":89770,"date":"2019-08-11T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89770"},"modified":"2019-08-11T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T18:00:34","slug":"screaming-eagle-found-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89770","title":{"rendered":"Screaming Eagle Found in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-70163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/D-day-stuff-2-500x309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A WWII gliderman (glider crew member) with a heavy Cajun accent is still alive and living in Louisiana. As a member of a glider crew (n this case, the 321st &#8220;Screaming Eagles&#8221; Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 101st Airborne Division), delivering troops and supplies into Normandy, he might have been found sitting in a Jeep, waiting for the glider to land so that he could drive the Jeep out of the hold.<\/p>\n<p>His story is below. He seems to be quite a character. He is one of two found to still be with us.\u00a0 The article doesn&#8217;t say what kind of glider he helped to crew, but I would guess either a Waco CG-4A, which ferried troops and supplies, or a Horsa, which did the same but was slightly larger than the CG-4A.<\/p>\n<p>He has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, along with another gliderman from WWII. May he have many more days ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/08\/06\/gliderman-lost-to-history-found-in-louisiana-france-awards-wwii-screaming-eagle-veteran-its-legion-of-honor\/\">https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/08\/06\/gliderman-lost-to-history-found-in-louisiana-france-awards-wwii-screaming-eagle-veteran-its-legion-of-honor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WWII gliderman (glider crew member) with a heavy Cajun accent is still alive and living &hellip; <a title=\"Screaming Eagle Found in Louisiana\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89770\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Screaming Eagle Found in Louisiana<\/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":[172,10,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-historical","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770","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=89770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89772,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions\/89772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}