{"id":572,"date":"2014-10-26T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T22:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aafcollection.info\/comm\/?p=572"},"modified":"2023-05-03T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:18:57","slug":"2lt-ralph-i-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2014\/10\/26\/2lt-ralph-i-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/Lt. Ralph I. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-573\" style=\"width: 113px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-573\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bozk2014d-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"2\/Lt. Ralph I. Jones\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bozk2014d-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bozk2014d-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bozk2014d.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 85vw, 113px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2\/Lt. Ralph I. Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>2\/Lt. Ralph I. Jones was killed August 28, 1944 over Boskov\u0161tejn, Czech Republic on his first combat mission.&nbsp; I recounted his heroic story in an <a title=\"A Hero Not Forgotten\" href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2014\/05\/18\/a-hero-not-forgotten\/\">earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the first time, his picture adorns the monument dedicated to a once-unknown American P-51 fighter pilot. The seventieth anniversary memorial service for 2\/Lt. Jones was held last August 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to&nbsp;Svatopluk \u201cSvat\u201d Vaculik who found the photograph of 2\/Lt. Jones and arranged for its inclusion on his monument.&nbsp; He also provided the photographs of the memorial service.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/icon-keepemflying.gif\" alt=\"Keep 'em Flying\" width=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>Did you or a family member serve in the Army Air Forces during World War II? Please contribute your own biography, or that of a loved one, to the Keep \u2018em Flying memorial at the AAF Collection. Contact the <a title=\"Contact the Curator\" href=\"mailto:curator@aafcollection.com?subject=AAF%20Collection:%20Keep%20em%20Flying\">curator<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/Lt. Ralph I. Jones was killed August 28, 1944 over Boskov\u0161tejn, Czech Republic on his first combat mission.&nbsp; I recounted his heroic story in an earlier post. Now for the first time, his picture adorns the monument dedicated to a once-unknown American P-51 fighter pilot. The seventieth anniversary memorial service for 2\/Lt. Jones was held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2014\/10\/26\/2lt-ralph-i-jones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2\/Lt. Ralph I. Jones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-keep-em-flying","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}