{"id":92493,"date":"2019-11-07T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92493"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:42:55","slug":"a-small-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92493","title":{"rendered":"A Small Blast From the Past"},"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>This is an excerpt from a book about Gene Rodenberry\u2019s time in the South Pacific while in the Army Air Force, doing bombing runs in bad weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/military-honor\/salute-veterans\/2019\/11\/07\/gene-roddenberrys-near-death-experiences-in-the-pacific-war\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/military-honor\/salute-veterans\/2019\/11\/07\/gene-roddenberrys-near-death-experiences-in-the-pacific-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the footage I&#8217;ve seen from the Pacific shows clear blue skies and balmy weather, which was simply incorrect. As the author indicates, the crews of these bombers frequently ran into bad weather because meteorology back then was nothing compared to what we have today.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, despite that constant flux and change in weather conditions, they succeeded in their mission, to push the Japanese military back.<\/p>\n<p>A side note: Rodenberry named the UFP starship Enterprise because he had visited the Navy&#8217;s aircraft carrier of the same name and was impressed by the way it was run. The real Enterprise was used in filming &#8220;Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excerpt from a book about Gene Rodenberry\u2019s time in the South Pacific while &hellip; <a title=\"A Small Blast From the Past\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92493\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Small Blast From the Past<\/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":[359,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92493","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=92493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92494,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92493\/revisions\/92494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}