{"id":32983,"date":"2018-09-01T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=32983"},"modified":"2018-09-01T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:18:27","slug":"day-238-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=32983","title":{"rendered":"Day 239"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jim took my old boss Vance and I out to the Air Museum at Malmstrom AFB, MT. \u00c2\u00a0Here is some of what we saw.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Norden Bomb Sight. \u00c2\u00a0This was so Top Secret the bombardiers had to destroy it before they bailed out&#8230;after WWII they were surplus junk that sold for pennies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823901-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823901-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823901-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823901-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823901.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is the few of &#8220;East Base&#8221; as Malmstrom AFB was called in WWII. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t know about the Japanese plane, but all those Russian\/USSR marked planes are correct. \u00c2\u00a0East Base was THE major Lend-Lease hub for transferring aircraft and other stuff to Russia. \u00c2\u00a0A little over 8,000 planes went through here in WWII!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823902-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823902-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823902-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823902-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823902.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A typical WWII flight suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823903-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823903-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823903-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823903-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823903.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">WWII quarters. \u00c2\u00a0It must be an officer&#8217;s: there is only one bed!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823904.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823904-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823904-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823904-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823904-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Day1823904.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jim took my old boss Vance and I out to the Air Museum at Malmstrom AFB, MT. \u00c2\u00a0Here is some of what we saw. The Norden Bomb Sight. \u00c2\u00a0This was so Top Secret the bombardiers had to destroy it before they bailed out&#8230;after WWII they were surplus junk that sold for pennies&#8230; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3,52,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic","category-life-at-home","category-pad-2018","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32991,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983\/revisions\/32991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}