{"id":302,"date":"2009-06-05T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:56:13","slug":"d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/06\/05\/d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"D Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow marks the anniversary of D Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy and we will use the opportunity to talk about the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) at UConn.\u00a0 Based out of the School of Engineering, the U.S. Army&#8217;s ASTP program was implemented in early 1944 due to the impending invasion. The goal of the program was to increase the number of army trained engineers across the country. More than 1,500 soldiers were stationed at UConn. The Kodachrome exhibit on display has several images of the training these soldiers received while on campus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_303\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/marching-soilders.jpg\" alt=\"Marching soilders, 1944\" width=\"499\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/marching-soilders.jpg 899w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/marching-soilders-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/marching-soilders-465x300.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marching soilders, 1944<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow marks the anniversary of D Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy and we will use the opportunity to talk about the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) at UConn.\u00a0 Based out of the School of Engineering, the U.S. Army&#8217;s ASTP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/06\/05\/d-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-4S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}