{"id":2831,"date":"2012-05-09T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2012-05-03T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T23:02:42","slug":"wwii-heroes-die-on-the-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/05\/wwii-heroes-die-on-the-same-day.html","title":{"rendered":"WWII Heroes Die on the Same Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/05\/rad-Glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2868\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/05\/rad-Glass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>Military Heroes &#8211; First Special Service Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mark Radcliffe and Joe Glass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Radcliffe, 94, and Joe Glass, 92 were the last surviving members of the First Special Service Force, or FSSF, a legendary commando unit consisting of American and Canadian soldiers that captured more than 27,000 enemy prisoners during WWII.\u00a0 They were chosen to be part of the Plough Project, which was described as a &#8220;suicide mission.<\/p>\n<p>For more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/04\/03\/wwii-heroes-who-served-in-elite-unit-reportedly-die-on-same-day\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\"><strong>Fox News.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Heroes &#8211; First Special Service Force Mark Radcliffe and Joe Glass Mark Radcliffe, 94, and Joe Glass, 92 were the last surviving members of the First Special Service Force, or FSSF, a legendary commando unit consisting of American and Canadian soldiers that captured more than 27,000 enemy prisoners during WWII.\u00a0 They were chosen to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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