{"id":689,"date":"2020-02-08T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aafcollection.info\/comm\/?p=689"},"modified":"2020-03-27T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:34:44","slug":"john-mcgarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2020\/02\/08\/john-mcgarity\/","title":{"rendered":"John McGarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5-1024x882.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5-1536x1324.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/focus5.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Those  who <em>keep \u2018em flying<\/em> are just as vital as those who <em>fly \u2018em<\/em>.  Here  fighter pilot Lt. Leonard Fuller makes a point to pose in front of his  P-51 with his crew chief, S\/Sgt. John McGarity, in 1944.  S\/Sgt.  McGarity worked tirelessly, often all night long, to prepare Lt.  Fuller\u2019s ship for the next day\u2019s mission.  Both their names are painted  near the plane\u2019s cockpit.  John went on to become a dentist near Macon,  Georgia, where he died in 2014. <span id='easy-footnote-1-689' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2020\/02\/08\/john-mcgarity\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-689' title='Thanks to Donna Bonning for the pictures and information.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"58\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/icon-keepemflying.gif\" alt=\"Keep 'em Flying\" class=\"wp-image-34\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\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 href=\"mailto:curator@aafcollection.com?subject=AAF%20Collection:%20Keep%20em%20Flying\">curator<\/a> for details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who keep \u2018em flying are just as vital as those who fly \u2018em. Here fighter pilot Lt. Leonard Fuller makes a point to pose in front of his P-51 with his crew chief, S\/Sgt. John McGarity, in 1944. S\/Sgt. McGarity worked tirelessly, often all night long, to prepare Lt. Fuller\u2019s ship for the next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2020\/02\/08\/john-mcgarity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John McGarity&#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":[18],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keep-em-flying","tag-fuller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}