{"id":440,"date":"2013-03-19T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/?p=440"},"modified":"2013-03-20T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:45:10","slug":"spirit-of-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spirit_of_lsu.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-442   \" alt=\"spirit_of_lsu\" src=\"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spirit_of_lsu.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spirit_of_lsu.jpg 650w, http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spirit_of_lsu-150x122.jpg 150w, http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/spirit_of_lsu-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of Cadets of the Ole War Skule Norman Deumite, Dr. David Baker of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Chair of the LSU Military Museum Harvey Schwartzberg,\u00a0and Past President John W. Milazzo, Jr., <em>\u2013 Photo by Johnny Gordon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A reproduction of the nose art panel of the World War II B-24 Liberator Bomber \u201cSpirit of LSU\u201d was donated to the future LSU Military Museum by Dr. David Baker of the School of Veterinary Medicine on March 6 in honor of LSU alumnus Lt. Alfred M.L. \u201cSmokey\u201d Sanders. The bomber\u2019s official name was \u201cMike \u2013 the Spirit of LSU,\u201d and its crew \u2013 the 8th Air Force, 832nd Squadron, 486 Bombardment Group \u2013 was under Sanders\u2019s command. Nose gunner A.B. Smith was also an LSU graduate. According to Baker, the panel design is different than that depicted in a painting by artist Glenn Gore (www.lsuart.net) but is true to the original intent of the crew, which provided a model for the painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reproduction of the nose art panel of the World War II B-24 Liberator Bomber \u201cSpirit of LSU\u201d was donated to the future LSU Military Museum by Dr. David Baker of the School of Veterinary Medicine on March 6 in&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/?p=440\">Continue Reading<span> Spirit of LSU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olewarskule.lsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}