{"id":31167,"date":"2015-03-10T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T03:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31167"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:33:48","slug":"fighter-pilot-who-led-operation-kiddy-car-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/fighter-pilot-who-led-operation-kiddy-car-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Pilot who led Operation Kiddy Car Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Hess, a retired US Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/03\/06\/air-force-veteran-who-rescued-orphans-in-korean-war-dies-at-97.html\">died last week<\/a> at the age of 97. Col Hess was a preacher who left the pulpit to become a fighter pilot, and he was a little-known key to the development of the South Korean Air Force. He was most famous, however, for helping rescue orphans during the Korean War:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hess, an ordained minister, was a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel when he helped arrange evacuation of Korean orphans from their country&#8217;s mainland to safety on a coastal island, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>He was a significant figure in Air Force history, and his efforts to help Korean children are a &#8220;shining example&#8221; of the Air Force&#8217;s humanitarian airlift capabilities, museum historian Jeff Underwood said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The effort was known as &#8220;Operation Kiddy Car.&#8221; Hess wrote an autobiography entitled <em>Battle Hymn<\/em>, and Rock Hudson played the role of Hess in a movie by the same name.\u00a0 The book was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/reviews.htm#hymn\">reviewed here<\/a>, and is recommended reading.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Hess, a retired US Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, died last week at the age of 97. Col Hess was a preacher who left the pulpit to become a fighter pilot, and he was a little-known key to the development of the South Korean Air Force. He was most famous, however, for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,2777,5285,518,2,5047,2368,10,123],"class_list":["post-31167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-dean-hess","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-korean-war","tag-military","tag-operation-kiddy-car","tag-orphanage","tag-religion","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}