{"id":14685,"date":"2015-12-29T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=14685"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:00:35","slug":"fighting-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/fighting-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='fullscreen_slider_1'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='14603'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_1'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout=''  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 108.85341074%;' ><li style='background-position:top left;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/FEAT-Fighting-Tigers-Statues-1378x1500.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class = \"caption_fullwidth av-slideshow-caption caption_left\"><div class = \"container caption_container\"><div class = \"slideshow_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_inner_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_align_caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >Fighting Tigers<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>by Kenneth Scar<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14685'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p>Nineteen Clemson ROTC officers served together in World War II as members of the \u201cRed Arrows.\u201d The first infantry unit to go on the offensive against the Japanese, they fought until the very end, the morning the peace treaty was signed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In early 1942, only weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 13 freight trains and 25 passenger trains left Fort Devens, Massachusetts, carrying some 10,000 soldiers with the Army National Guard\u2019s 32nd Infantry Division, the \u201cRed Arrows,\u201d bound for Australia and the Pacific Theater.[pullquote] It was the first American division to deploy as an entire unit from the United States to the front lines \u2014 a first of what would be many firsts for the Red Arrows.[\/pullquote]<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14572\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Jenson_Blackmon_May_Wolfe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14572\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14572\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Jenson_Blackmon_May_Wolfe-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Clinton Blackmon \u201941 (second from left) with other officers of Red Arrows Division in Australia, 1942 (courtesy of Clinton R. Blackmon family collection).\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Jenson_Blackmon_May_Wolfe-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Jenson_Blackmon_May_Wolfe-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Jenson_Blackmon_May_Wolfe-705x466.jpg 705w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Jenson_Blackmon_May_Wolfe.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Clinton Blackmon \u201941 (second from left) with other officers of Red Arrows Division in Australia, 1942 (courtesy of Clinton R. Blackmon family collection).<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nAboard those trains were 32 officers who had been commissioned by the four South Carolina peacetime Reserve Officer Training Corps programs at The Citadel, Wofford College, Presbyterian College and Clemson College. Nineteen of them were Clemson alumni from the classes of 1934-1941, with nine from the class of \u201939 alone.<br \/>\nThe South Carolinians had been thrown into the 32nd \u2014 normally a Michigan and Wisconsin National Guard unit \u2014 as the U.S. military hastily gathered itself to strike into the heart of its new enemies.<br \/>\nSuch a large group of officers from one school in the same unit was unusual, but many of the 19 officers from Clemson would go on to distinguish themselves as leaders and help carry the Red Arrows through the next four years of combat \u2014 beginning with one of the most devastating battles of World War II.<br \/>\nFrom Australia, the division, under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, moved into the rain-soaked jungles of Papua New Guinea, where it charged into the Battle of Buna on Nov. 16, 1942, making it the first infantry unit to go on the offensive against the Japanese.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The battle was a brutal nine-week trial by fire. Amid the haste to take the fight to the enemy, the logistics of transporting food and other supplies to the front lines were being worked out even as the bullets were flying. The fighting itself was a test of wills over unforgiving, waterlogged jungle terrain in oppressively humid weather with temperatures that could reach 122 degrees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The combination of dreadful climate, poor diet and stress created the perfect storm for disease, and soon malaria was taking men out of the battle five times faster than the enemy. Eighty-five percent of all Allied soldiers contracted the disease, which necessitated keeping the sick in the fight unless they were completely incapacitated.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14571\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Cheatham_Barrineau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14571\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Cheatham_Barrineau-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Army Lieutenants Timothy Barrineau \u201939 and Frank Cheatham \u201940 in Port Moresby, New Guinea, Dec. 1942 (photo courtesy of Simon Cheatham).\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Cheatham_Barrineau-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Cheatham_Barrineau-489x705.jpg 489w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-Cheatham_Barrineau.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Army Lieutenants Timothy Barrineau \u201939 and Frank Cheatham \u201940 in Port Moresby, New Guinea, Dec. 1942\u00a0(photo courtesy of Simon Cheatham).<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n\u201cDespite catastrophic losses of more than 90 percent, they managed to secure the\u00a0Army\u2019s first land victory over the Japanese \u2014 slightly\u00a0sooner than the contemporary action on Guadalcanal wrapped up,\u201d said Joe H. Camp Jr., author of <em>32 Answered: A South Carolina Veteran\u2019s Story<\/em>, a book about the South Carolina soldiers who found themselves in the Red Arrows.<br \/>\nThe Battle of Buna either broke men or hardened them to war. The ones who made it through were toughened for the fight and carried their experiences into subsequent campaigns. Several of the lieutenants from Clemson not only survived Buna, but were forged into exemplary leaders there.<br \/>\n\u201cTwo Clemson \u201941s \u2014 Lt. J. Ernest Cottingham and Lt. Ben G. McKnight [who earned a posthumous Silver Star] \u2014 were killed in that first combat at Buna. The Clemson men who managed to survive that first campaign \u2014 those not killed or permanently precluded from further combat duty by malaria \u2014 stayed on\u00a0with the Red Arrows in subsequent campaigns all the way to the Philippines\u00a0and in doing so actually formed the core of the unit leadership for the war,\u201d said Camp.<br \/>\nNearly all the Clemson men who survived the Buna campaign were elevated from platoon to company commanders because of their actions there, and several continued to lead Red Arrow soldiers until the end of the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The sheer amount of time the unit was in theater is staggering: over 13,000 hours of combat, or 654 days \u2014 more than any other U.S. Army division.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_fullscreen  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='fullscreen_slider_2'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth   slider-not-first container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='14573'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_2'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout=''  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-2 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 54.125%;' ><li style='background-position:top left;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fightng-Tigers-Yamasita-InfantryRedArrow.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-2' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class = \"caption_fullwidth av-slideshow-caption caption_bottom caption_bottom_framed caption_framed\"><div class = \"container caption_container\"><div class = \"slideshow_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_inner_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_align_caption\"><div class='avia-caption-content  av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"description\"   style='font-size:10px; '><p>A photo taken by Lt. William H. Thackston \u201939 shows Imperial Japanese Army Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita \u201cThe Tiger of Malaya\u201d (center) posing with American soldiers at his surrender to U.S. forces (photo courtesy of the Thackston family).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_2'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14685'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p>As it turned out, the Red Arrows were not only the first to fight, but also the last.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDespite\u00a0all language in the official cessation communiqu\u00e9,\u00a0the Red Arrow Division was still engaged in active hot combat against the Japanese in Northern Luzon well after August 15, and actually right up to the very morning the peace treaty was being signed in Tokyo Bay,\u201d noted Camp. \u201cOnly later that same\u00a0day, and after extended delicate\u00a0communication,\u00a0did\u00a0the Japanese overall commander in the Philippines, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, agree to hand over his still-sizeable force. Elements\u00a0of the 3rd Battalion 128th Regiment of the Red Arrows\u00a0met Yamashita and escorted him to the American headquarters. In the words of Gen. Robert Eichelberger, commanding the U.S. Eighth Army, it was \u2018entirely fitting\u2019 that the\u00a032nd Division should receive Yamashita since they had been the first to fight against the Japanese on the long road back to the Philippines.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14569\" style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Lt-William-Thackston-1939a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14569\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14569\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Lt-William-Thackston-1939a-80x80.jpg\" alt=\"William Thackston 1939\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Lt-William-Thackston-1939a-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Lt-William-Thackston-1939a-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Lt-William-Thackston-1939a-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Thackston 1939<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nWilliam Thackston\u00a0\u201939, who had\u00a0worked on Clemson\u2019s <em>Tiger<\/em>\u00a0newspaper, snapped a series of photos as Yamashita exited\u00a0the passenger seat of an American truck and mingled briefly with the soldiers before being escorted away to interrogation and ultimately, execution.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_fullscreen  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='fullscreen_slider_3'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth   slider-not-first container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='14570'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_3'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout=''  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-3 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 69%;' ><li style='background-position:top left;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Fighting-Tigers-4-July-42.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-3' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class = \"caption_fullwidth av-slideshow-caption caption_right caption_right_framed caption_framed\"><div class = \"container caption_container\"><div class = \"slideshow_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_inner_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_align_caption\"><div class='avia-caption-content  av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"description\"   style='font-size:10px; '><p>The 32nd Red Arrow Division marches in a 4th of July parade in Adelaide, South Australia, 1942.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_3'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14685'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p>As the war wound down and the dust settled, the Red Arrows were unfortunately positioned to be some of the very last service members to return to America, but return they did, the final ones being rotated home in October of 1945.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey had left the U.S. mainland in April of 1942, anxious to get a necessary job finished and then return to their 1941 lives,\u201d said Camp, who described the group of South Carolina reservists as \u201cthe first team of citizen soldiers to take the fight to the Pacific enemy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTheir first engagement brutally shaped that unit into a seasoned fighting force, with several of the same South Carolinians remaining as the core of experienced front-line leadership. Rotation from the Pacific theater back to the U.S. was extremely slow and issue-laden; as a result, they were overseas for such a long time that, given the changes to society in place by the end of the war, they might not have immediately recognized the 1941 lives they aspired to regain upon their return.\u201d<br \/>\nThe survivors came home and scattered across South Carolina and the nation, settling into quiet lives and becoming what so many of \u201cthe greatest generation\u201d became \u2014 heroes hiding in plain sight.<br \/>\n<em>Kenneth Scar is a public information director at Clemson.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div   class='av_promobox  avia-button-yes   avia-builder-el-17  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '>\t\t<div class='avia-promocontent'><\/p>\n<h3>The Clemson Red Arrows<\/h3>\n<p>Nearly all the Clemson men who survived the Buna campaign were elevated from platoon to company commanders because of their actions there, and several continued to lead Red Arrow soldiers until the end of the war. Several Clemson alumni distinguished themselves:<\/p>\n<\/div><div  class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-right ' ><a href='http:\/\/wp.me\/p63Bn8-3OT'  class='avia-button   avia-icon_select-no avia-color-theme-color avia-size-large avia-position-right '   ><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[76,241,2366,2460,3299,3301,3424],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-32nd-infantry-division","tag-army-national-guard","tag-red-arrows-division","tag-rotc","tag-winter-2016","tag-winter-2016-features","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/FEAT-Fighting-Tigers-Statues.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}