{"id":94410,"date":"2020-01-13T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94410"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T20:33:02","slug":"keel-laid-for-warship-honoring-world-war-ii-marine-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94410","title":{"rendered":"Keel laid for warship honoring World War II Marine hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-94411 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gunnert-Sgt-John-Basilone-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gunnert-Sgt-John-Basilone-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gunnert-Sgt-John-Basilone-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gunnert-Sgt-John-Basilone-500x269.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Gunnert-Sgt-John-Basilone.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Gunnery Sgt. (then-Sgt.) John Basilone, of Raritan, N.J. was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the face of a savage Japanese frontal attack one night on Guadalcanal while manning a key machine gun. Awarded in field by dispatch 12 April 1943. A Maine shipyard announced it has celebrated the keel laying of a future Navy guided-missile destroyer that honors his legacy. (National Archives)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BATH, Maine \u2014 A Maine shipyard announced it celebrated the keel laying of a future Navy guided-missile destroyer on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdbiw.com\/index.html\">General Dynamics Bath Iron Works<\/a> reached the milestone in the construction of the future John Basilone.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/blog\/the-significance-of-keel-laying\">keel laying ceremony <\/a>is one of the major events in the life of a ship.<\/p>\n<p>The ship&#8217;s sponsors and a BIW welder authenticated the keel by striking welding arcs onto the steel plate, the shipyard said.<\/p>\n<p>The keel laying is a precursor to the final construction of the ship, testing and sea trials, the shipyard said.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is named for Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, who earned the Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima, where he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>He was the only enlisted Marine in World War II who received both decorations, the shipyard said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gunnery Sgt. Basilone has been featured on one of our Valor Fridays. It&#8217;s great to have adults in charge.<br \/>\nHand salute. Ready, Two! <\/p>\n<p>The entire article may be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/01\/11\/keel-laid-for-warship-honoring-world-war-ii-marine-hero\/\">Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunnery Sgt. (then-Sgt.) John Basilone, of Raritan, N.J. was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism &hellip; <a title=\"Keel laid for warship honoring World War II Marine hero\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94410\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keel laid for warship honoring World War II Marine hero<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,119,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-navy","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94412,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410\/revisions\/94412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}