{"id":115420,"date":"2021-07-11T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115420"},"modified":"2021-07-11T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T14:29:15","slug":"an-inspiring-tale-of-5-anzac-soldiers-who-escaped-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115420","title":{"rendered":"An inspiring tale of 5 ANZAC soldiers who escaped the Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a World War I formation that fought with distinction, most famously during the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign. To Australians and Kiwis, ANZAC Day, which commemorates Gallipoli is a major national holiday. Soldiers of both countries still greatly identify with the spirit of the ANZAC troops.<\/p>\n

I came across this great article<\/a> about five ANZACs of the Second World War who fought in the ill-fated Battle of Greece. Two of the men escape a German POW train and spend weeks on the run. Along the way they meet up with three more men from Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

They make their way through Greece in a stirring odyssey before making their way to neutral Turkey, right through the Dardanelles Strait that lead directly to Gallipoli, where their ANZAC brethren fought so valiantly.<\/p>\n

The article is a great Sunday read from the Australian Broadcasting Company, documented with photos, maps, and supported by contemporary diaries of the journey. Take a moment and read about something we here in the states often don’t hear about, and remember the sacrifices of our allies in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a World War I formation that fought with distinction, most famously during the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign. To Australians and Kiwis, ANZAC Day, which commemorates Gallipoli is a major national holiday. Soldiers of both countries still greatly identify with the spirit of the ANZAC troops. I came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,10,130,121,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussies","category-historical","category-real-soldiers","category-war-stories","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-u1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}