{"id":2976,"date":"2019-03-25T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T23:01:03","slug":"u-s-s-hobson-launching-program-all-images-courtesy-of-david-o-whitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"U.S.S. Hobson Launching Program &#8211; All Images Courtesy of David O. Whitten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"905\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-001-905x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-001-905x1024.jpg 905w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-001-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-001-768x869.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-001.jpg 1541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"854\" src=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-002-1024x854.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-002-1024x854.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-002-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-002-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-002.jpg 1319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-003-1024x824.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-003-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-003-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-003-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-003.jpg 1349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"821\" src=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-004-1024x821.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-004-1024x821.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-004-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-004-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-004.jpg 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-005-558x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-005-558x1024.jpg 558w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-005-163x300.jpg 163w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-005-768x1410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/HOBSON-005.jpg 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the above images are courtesy of David O. Whitten and his wife June. Mrs. Whitten&#8217;s father, Edmond Pop, was a ship fitter in Charleston during WWII &#8211; one of the countless skilled civilians who efforts were as important to the war effort as any soldier, sailor or marine. My sincere appreciation to Mrs. Whitten and her father for this material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please read Mr. David Whitten&#8217;s fascinating account of serving on an honor guard at the U.S.S. Hobson Memorial in the previous post on this blog. You will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the above images are courtesy of David O. Whitten and his wife June. Mrs. Whitten&#8217;s father, Edmond Pop, was a ship fitter in Charleston during WWII &#8211; one of the countless skilled civilians who efforts were as important to the war effort as any soldier, sailor or marine. My sincere appreciation to Mrs. Whitten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lost-at-sea-memorials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}