{"id":25125,"date":"2024-07-19T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/the-invictus-singer\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:41:02","slug":"the-invictus-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/the-invictus-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invictus Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H757ocDF9V8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lt. Col. Thomas R. Moss was the pilot of the B-24 Liberator nicknamed &#8220;Invictus&#8221; by her crew. Beginning in the Army Air Corps in February 1942, Moss would go on to fly in 35 missions over war-torn Europe, totaling an astonishing 279 combat hours.<\/p>\n<p>This Singer M1911A1 pistol was issue to him new, in-the-box, accompanied him on every single mission, and remained in his possession until 2018. Lt. Col. Moss passed in 2020, but his legacy lives on proudly in the Invictus Singer.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Col. Thomas R. Moss was the pilot of the B-24 Liberator nicknamed &#8220;Invictus&#8221; by her crew. Beginning in the Army Air Corps in February 1942, Moss would go on to fly in 35 missions over war-torn Europe, totaling an astonishing 279 combat hours. This Singer M1911A1 pistol was issue to him new, in-the-box, accompanied&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/the-invictus-singer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Invictus Singer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":25126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}