{"id":1772,"date":"2017-06-04T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:18:53","slug":"last-surviving-pilot-of-battle-of-midway-75th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Last surviving pilot of Battle of Midway &#8211; 75th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d288f8e1970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Midway pilot\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d288f8e1970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d288f8e1970c-200wi\" style=\"width: 196px;\" title=\"Midway pilot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Midway\">Battle of Midway<\/a> &#8211; June 4-7, 1942. Here&#39;s the last dive bomber pilot &#8211; a great, brief video interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fdkd4X0FrnE\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of Midway &#8211; June 4-7, 1942. Here&#39;s the last dive bomber pilot &#8211; a great, brief video interview. &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7884,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/7884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}