{"id":3863,"date":"2016-05-22T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T06:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/22\/female-pilots-who-flew-during-wwii-can-now-be-buried-at-arlington\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T06:24:25","slug":"female-pilots-who-flew-during-wwii-can-now-be-buried-at-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/22\/female-pilots-who-flew-during-wwii-can-now-be-buried-at-arlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Female pilots who flew during WWII can now be buried at Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 1,000 women were trained as pilots for the American military during World War II,\u00a0but their legacy had never been fully recognized until Friday\u00a0<\/span>when President Barack Obama signed bipartisan legislation giving them the right to be laid to rest at Arlington National\u00a0<\/span>Cemetery<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The female service members were part of a program called\u00a0Women’s Airforce Service Pilots and were known by the acronym WASPs. They flew the largest bombers and quickest fighters. They towed targets for gunnery training and ferried more than half of the combat aircraft within the U.S. during World War II. Thirty-eight of the women died during their service.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 1,000 women were trained as pilots for the American military during World War II,\u00a0but their legacy had never been fully recognized until Friday\u00a0when President Barack Obama signed bipartisan legislation giving them the right to be laid to rest … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1161,1767,874,814,1049],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-gender","tag-gender-equality","tag-history","tag-military","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}