{"id":5700,"date":"2017-11-18T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2017-11-28T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T02:58:47","slug":"blog-talk-radio-rick-staggenborg-interviews-shawn-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5700","title":{"rendered":"Blog Talk Radio: Rick Staggenborg Interviews Shawn Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Staggenborg\u00c2\u00a0 Interviews Shawn Hamilton, (click hyperlink)<\/a><\/p>\n

who discusses his father, Ralph Hamilton, a P-51 Mustang pilot during WW2. Shot down over Crailsheim, Germany in 1944, the elder Hamilton became a prisoner of Germany and subsequently an artist and Soldier for Peace.<\/p>\n

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Ralph Hamilton’s P-51 Mustang at Duxford,, tail # 44-15650, 1944.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ralph Hamilton, Duxford, England, 1944<\/p><\/div>\n

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