{"id":331,"date":"2009-10-29T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-06-03T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:13:00","slug":"wild-blue-the-men-and-boys-who-flew-the-b-24s-over-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Wild Blue, The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24’s over Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, Simon & Shuster, New York<\/p>\n

This book was an okay read and some of it was interesting, particularly the information about George McGovern’s service as a B-24 bomber pilot.\u00c2\u00a0 There was, however, nothing\u00c2\u00a0 great about the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Ambrose developed a formula for writing these books, applied it, and the end products show it. \"2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, Simon & Shuster, New York This book was an okay read and some of it was interesting, particularly the information about George McGovern’s service as a B-24 bomber pilot.\u00c2\u00a0 There was, however, nothing\u00c2\u00a0 great about …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,21],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}