{"id":117,"date":"2008-01-10T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbekerk.wordpress.com\/fragments\/they-fought-with-what-they-had\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:34:48","slug":"they-fought-with-what-they-had","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"They fought with what they had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excelent historical account by &nbsp;Walter D. Edmonds which describes the history of the US Air Forces in the Philippines and Java in the last days of 1941 and 1942.&nbsp; Eight pages describe the desperate escape of the ground troops with Abbekerk and are displayed here.<br \/>\nBut I can really recommend to everybody reading the whole story of this very unknown part of WWII.<\/p>\n<p>To download the whole story from the Air Force Historical Studies Office:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afhso.af.mil\/shared\/media\/document\/AFD-101001-051.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>,<br \/>\nOr ready the pages about Abbekerk:<br \/>\n(I was unable to get the text from the pdf so I put them in as pictures which may take a while to load.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"1.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"3.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"4.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"5.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"6.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/6.jpg\" alt=\"6.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"7.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/7.jpg\" alt=\"7.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"8.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbekerk.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/8.jpg\" alt=\"8.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excelent historical account by &nbsp;Walter D. Edmonds which describes the history of the US Air Forces in the Philippines and Java in the last days of 1941 and 1942.&nbsp; Eight pages describe the desperate escape of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4001,"parent":109,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PNWHW-1T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/4003"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msabbekerk.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}