{"id":5184,"date":"2014-07-07T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2014-07-07T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:56:07","slug":"vignette-us-troops-land-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5184","title":{"rendered":"Vignette: US troops land in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4429\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=4429\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4429\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4429\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wiceland1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"The US Army's Camp Pershing, Iceland, WWII [Public domain, wiki]\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wiceland1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wiceland1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Wiceland1.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US Army&#8217;s Camp Pershing, Iceland, WWII [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>Today is the anniversary of the\u00a0arrival of a brigade of US marines\u00a0in Iceland: 8 July 1941.<\/p>\n<p>The American task force was assembled in Charleston, South Carolina, and sailed for Newfoundland and then on to Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>The Icelanders welcomed the US troops, who were taking over from the British force that had invaded the island in\u00a0May of that year\u00a0to preempt a perceived attack by Germany. The Americans remained in Iceland for the duration of World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the anniversary of the\u00a0arrival of a brigade of US marines\u00a0in Iceland: 8 July 1941. The American task force was assembled in Charleston, South Carolina, and sailed for Newfoundland and then on to Iceland. The Icelanders welcomed the US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[156],"tags":[507,500],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vignette","tag-camp-pershing","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}