{"id":32812,"date":"2017-06-01T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T22:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=32812"},"modified":"2017-06-01T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T22:45:27","slug":"changes-to-the-flying-legends-of-victory-visit-to-hays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=32812","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Flying Legends of Victory Visit to Hays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release<\/p>\n<p>Mesa, Arizona \u2013 (May 31, 2017) \u2013 The Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum announces a change in its Flying Legends of Victory Summer Tour for the Hays, Kansas tour stop from June 2 to June 4, 2017: The historic C-47 Combat Legend cargo plane, \u201cOld Number 30,\u201d will join this tour stop and provide Living History rides while the B-17 Bomber, \u201cSentimental Journey\u201d undergoes unexpected maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSentimental Journey\u201d is an ultra-rare WWII airplane and is one of less than ten still flying in the world.\u00a0 The public will still be able to conduct \u201cClimb Aboard\u201d tours of the Bomber while watching its crew perform maintenance.\u00a0 With the addition of the C-47 Combat Legend, the public will be able to enjoy two prestigious warbirds, in addition to the special guest P-51 Mustang, \u201cGunfighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The C-47 Combat Legend is a true war hero and possesses a significant WWII combat record.\u00a0 Its 60<sup>th<\/sup> Troup Carrier Group and Squadrons were awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for operations conducted from March 28, 1944 to September 15, 1944 that helped secure our nation\u2019s WWII victory.\u00a0 Some noteworthy operations for this \u201cOld Number 30\u201d aircraft included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>evacuation of thousands of desperate fleeing and wounded civilians and downed Allied airmen;<\/li>\n<li>top secret missions dropping spies and supplies as part of Operation Bodyguard to deceive Nazis and other Axis powers into thinking the main invasion of Europe was coming from the Mediterranean; and<\/li>\n<li>towing-in glider troops and dropping commandos for the invasion of Sicily and Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The C-47 will be delivering maintenance supplies to the Flying Legends of Victory Summer Tour crew staying true to its role in WWII as a \u201csupply line in the sky\u201d logistical support aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Mesa, Arizona \u2013 (May 31, 2017) \u2013 The Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum announces a change in its Flying Legends of Victory Summer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11],"tags":[11081,11082,11083,106,394,246,103],"class_list":["post-32812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-news","tag-arizona-commemorative-air-force-museum","tag-c-47","tag-flying-legends-of-victory-summer-tour","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-hays","tag-kansas","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}