{"id":232889,"date":"2025-06-10T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1414240"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:54:10","slug":"aviators-from-crashed-wwii-bomber-laid-to-rest-after-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=232889","title":{"rendered":"Aviators from crashed WWII bomber laid to rest after 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1414241 wp-post-1414240\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/20250517raaf8678059_0099.jpg.iifihuTyMXWTgeVjYBMA.aToh9YgfFW_gsrhkv.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1749513188\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 677\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Warrant Officer Russell Grigg (navigator) and Warrant Officer Clement Wiggins (pilot), who died when their aircraft Beaufort A9-186 went down off the coast of Papua New Guinea in September 1943, were interred last month at Bomana War Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warrant Officer Russell Grigg (navigator) and Warrant Officer Clement Wiggins (pilot), who died when their aircraft Beaufort A9-186 went down off the coast of Papua New Guinea in September 1943, were interred last month at Bomana War Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,470,4920,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-232889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-defence","category-heritage","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232890,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232889\/revisions\/232890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}