{"id":302,"date":"2009-06-05T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:00:03","slug":"d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/06\/05\/d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"D Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow marks the\u00a065th anniversary of D Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy and we will use the\u00a0opportunity 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\u00a0was implemented in early 1944 due to the impending invasion.\u00a0 The goal of the program was to\u00a0increase the number of army trained engineers across the country.\u00a0 More than 1,500 soilders were stationed at UConn.\u00a0 The Kodachrome exhibit on display has several images of the training these soilders received while on campus.\u00a0 For more information about the ASTP, please see their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astpww2.org\/\">http:\/\/www.astpww2.org\/<\/a><\/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-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/marching-soilders.jpg 899w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/05\/marching-soilders-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.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<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align:left\">We hope you will join us for UConn&#8217;s Alumni Weekend this Friday and Saturday.\u00a0 We are offering free tours of the Dodd Center and the Homer Babbidge Library on Saturday at 10am.<\/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\u00a065th anniversary of D Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy and we will use the\u00a0opportunity 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\u00a0was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}