{"id":3734,"date":"2018-12-02T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3734"},"modified":"2018-12-02T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:13:07","slug":"december-16-1943-lemoore-california-close-call","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/basic-flight-training-december-1943\/december-16-1943-lemoore-california-close-call\/","title":{"rendered":"December 16, 1943, Lemoore, California, Close Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#edf2f9;    '>\r\n                            Tom describes a near fatal training accident which he narrowly avoided. It is a note to himself, on the last page of his address book. This was in the collection held by his daughter and forwarded to me. She had attached a Post-it note saying, &#8220;Check out &#8220;Close Calls&#8221; I think it was censored by my mother.\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>Close Calls:<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. the 16th while here at <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/lemoore-army-air-field\/\">Lemoore Basic<\/a> I just about didn&#8217;t get to celebrate my 20th birthday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3735\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-16-1943-Lemoore-California-Close-Call.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3735\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-16-1943-Lemoore-California-Close-Call-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"December 16, 1943, Lemoore, California, Close Call\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-16-1943-Lemoore-California-Close-Call-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-16-1943-Lemoore-California-Close-Call.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 16, 1943, Lemoore, California, Close Call<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While coming in for landing, was just leveling off when a plane landed just over me. Had I continued my landing I would have run into the other plane and smeared us both over the runway. I gunned the engine and just cleared the other plane. Had it not been for the fact that I had my flaps most all the way down I would not have been able to clear the other ship. Lesson learned: Look out for the dumb who are going to land on top of you.<\/p>\n<p>T.E.C<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close Calls: On Dec. the 16th while here at Lemoore Basic I just about didn&#8217;t get to celebrate my 20th birthday. While coming in for landing, was just leveling off when a plane landed just over me. Had I continued my landing I would have run into the other plane and smeared us both over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/basic-flight-training-december-1943\/december-16-1943-lemoore-california-close-call\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December 16, 1943, Lemoore, California, Close Call<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1686,"menu_order":5140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-tom-cartmell-note-to-himself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3734\/revisions\/3736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}