{"id":53152,"date":"2022-04-14T06:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=53152"},"modified":"2022-04-14T06:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T11:24:41","slug":"know-your-ww2-history-axis-vs-aa-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/know-your-ww2-history-axis-vs-aa-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your WW2 History: Axis vs AA Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-53155\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/04\/quad-50.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"492\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearmorylife.com\/axis-vs-aa-guns-history-of-american-anti-aircraft-weapons\/\">AXIS VS. AA GUNS: HISTORY OF AMERICAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>Even from the first moments of America\u2019s sudden involvement in World War II, U.S. anti-aircraft (AA) gunners were in the thick of the fight. John W. Finn, US Navy Chief Aviation Ordnanceman, won the Medal of Honor during the <a class=\"ajax-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thearmorylife.com\/american-small-arms-on-the-day-of-infamy\/\">Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor<\/a>, December 7, 1941. <\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>As Japanese planes attacked his post at Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, he fought back from an exposed .50 caliber machine gun stand. He hammered away at the strafing and bombing Japanese aircraft.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AXIS VS. AA GUNS: HISTORY OF AMERICAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS &nbsp; Even from the first moments of America\u2019s sudden involvement in World War II, U.S. anti-aircraft (AA) gunners were in the thick of the fight. John W. Finn, US Navy Chief Aviation Ordnanceman, won the Medal of Honor during the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13890,475,5064,478,479,6096,6789,6052,4827,6458,6166,1898,7357,24,1899,1901],"tags":[763,660,10687,14223,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}