{"id":23126,"date":"2022-08-14T15:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23126"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:26:05","slug":"september-ceremony-to-formally-honor-those-who-died-in-training-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/september-ceremony-to-formally-honor-those-who-died-in-training-accidents\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Dedication Ceremony Set for September \u2013 A Memorial to the 15,500 of the US Army Air Forces Who Died in Training but Never Formally Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year, at a uniquely restored major WWII training station, a dedication ceremony will give the first-ever public recognition to a category of heroes who paid the ultimate price in US military service.\u00c2\u00a0 They were lost before they could even get to combat. Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.467bg.com\/reunionsResults.php?year=2022\">467<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.467bg.com\/reunionsResults.php?year=2022\">th<\/a><\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.467bg.com\/reunionsResults.php?year=2022\"> Bomb Group Association<\/a> and the Historic Wendover Air Field Foundation in recognizing all US Arm Force Personnel who were lost in training accidents or in accidents on their way overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A veteran organization through its\nresearch was not able to find <em>a single extant memorial <\/em>to the 15,500 US\nArmy Airforce men who died in training accidents.<\/li><li>This was <em>fully 4% of the total WS WWII\nfatalities <\/em>(404,000).<\/li><li>This loss is <em>more than twice<\/em><em> the 7,000 combat losses of the entire Second Air\nDivision<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li><li>These at home fatalities <em>equaled more\nthan half of the 8<sup>th<\/sup> AF combat losses of 26,000.<\/em><\/li><li>Most of those lost\nin training died before even being assigned to a bomber fighter group, so <em>have\nnever been noted by any veteran or commemoration associations<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li><li>Families of those\nwho died <em>mourned and honored their sons<\/em> <em>alone<\/em>, <em>rarely\nconnecting with families of his comrades or even crewmates.<\/em><em><\/em><\/li><li>These heroes, at\nthe time of their death, <em>were typically less publicly lauded and recognized\nthan those lost in combat<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Public recognition has\nbeen planned.&nbsp; One group will be honoring the 56\nmen lost in training and in transit to England at this historic\ntraining field where they completed\ntraining in the continental United States. <em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first-ever long overdue\nrecognition will note the losses of other heavy bomber groups at Wendover Air\nField.&nbsp; The dedication ceremony is\nspecifically open to the <em>relatives of all these men, <\/em>so that they may\nfinally have an important element of closure and finally feel the warm embrace\nof grateful others. It is also open to <em>other veteran- or veteran-honoring\norganizations <\/em>to commemorate these heroes as we have honored and recognized\nAmerican WWII heroes that fell in combat, and any who are moved to publicly\ngive name and face to the 15,500.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, at a uniquely restored major WWII training station, a dedication ceremony will give the first-ever public recognition to a category of heroes who paid the ultimate price in US military service.\u00c2\u00a0 They were lost before they could even get to combat. Join the 467th Bomb Group Association and the Historic Wendover Air Field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23170,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126\/revisions\/23170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}