{"id":218268,"date":"2013-11-20T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123371505"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:40:01","slug":"world-war-ii-veteran-presented-to-prisoner-of-war-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218268","title":{"rendered":"World War II Veteran Presented to Prisoner of War Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123371505\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/11\/131025-F-PP655-006.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Col. Scott W. Beidleman, director, Space and Missile Systems<br \/>\nCenter, Development Planning Directorate, at Los Angeles Air Force Base,<br \/>\nCalif., presides over a Prisoner of War Medal presentation, Oct 25, 2013.<br \/>\nThe POW Medal was presented to WW II Army Air Corps SSgt. Charles Brudo at<br \/>\nthe request of USAF (ret) Col Vincent Fonke who was the pilot of the ill<br \/>\nfated B-17 that was abandoned after heavy damage by German fighters on Aug<br \/>\n16, 1944; both were taken prisoner and liberated on April 29, 1945. (U.S.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123371505\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}