{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89770","title":{"rendered":"Screaming Eagle Found in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 “Screaming Eagles” 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

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’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

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

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

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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 “Screaming Eagles” Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 101st Airborne Division), delivering troops and supplies into Normandy, he might have been found sitting in a Jeep, waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-nlU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}