{"id":1725,"date":"2017-03-27T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:34:37","slug":"ceremony-honors-pilot-who-died-in-1945-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony honors pilot who died in 1945 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1726\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1726\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2-768x936.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2-1200x1462.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/101-2.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 85vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Ochoa, the last surviving brother of Capt. Fred Ochoa, is presented with an American flag honoring his brother.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 27, 1945, Marine Capt. Fred Ochoa, 26, set out from Patuxent River Naval Air Station on what was a test flight for a new twin-engine aircraft. He never returned. The weather was treacherous, and the plane crashed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Bluemont. Among the items found with Ochoa\u2019s body were a parachute and a rosary.<\/p>\n<p>The prayer beads were a key link in a chain of events that culminated in a memorial ceremony and celebration of Ochoa\u2019s life March 18, when 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/ceremony-at-site-of-1945-loudoun-plane-crash-honors-pilot\/2017\/03\/24\/d471a65c-1090-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.953a774376e9\" target=\"_blank\">members of the Ochoa family gathered with a group of neighbors who live near the crash site<\/a>. The reunion helped provide answers to questions that members of both groups had for decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/ceremony-at-site-of-1945-loudoun-plane-crash-honors-pilot\/2017\/03\/24\/d471a65c-1090-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.953a774376e9\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, March 26, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, 1945, Marine Capt. Fred Ochoa, 26, set out from Patuxent River Naval Air Station on what was a test flight for a new twin-engine aircraft. He never returned. The weather was treacherous, and the plane crashed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Bluemont. Among the items found with Ochoa\u2019s body were a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ceremony honors pilot who died in 1945 crash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[172,10,26,3],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-bluemont","tag-history","tag-law-enforcement","tag-loudoun-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}