{"id":1386,"date":"2014-03-01T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2014-04-15T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T23:15:29","slug":"march-1944-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/march-1944-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"March 1944 in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 1 \u2013 A huge snowfall blocked many rural roads. The Red Cross began a fund-raising drive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 3 \u2013 One man was killed and two were injured in an explosion during construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad tunnel east of Bozeman.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 4 \u2013 Doolittle Raider David Thatcher was interviewed on a radio program on the Blue Radio network.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 6 \u2013 Two civilians flying an Aeronca trainer were injured after they struck a power line and crashed near Apgar. Minus 16 degrees recorded in Glasgow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 14 \u2013 A five-year-old Billings boy lost a leg after being run over by a train.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 19 \u2013 A 7th Ferrying Group pilot was killed in the crash of his light bomber at Stockett.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 24 \u2013 A gasoline explosion at a Baker garage destroyed eight cars and caused $40,000 damage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 30 \u2013 The Montana Hotel in Helena was damaged by fire. All 19 guests were evacuated safely.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">March 31 \u2013 The old grandstand at Anaconda was destroyed by fire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Montana History Calendar 1942\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1942-in-montana\/\">Montana History Calendar 1942<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Montana History Calendar 1941\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1941\/\">Montana History Calendar 1941<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Montana History Calendar 1930s\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/montana-history-calendar-1930s\/\">Montana History Calendar 1930s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"February 1944 in Montana\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/february-1944-montana\/\">February 1944 in Montana<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a title=\"March 1944 in Montana\" href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/march-1944-montana\/\">April 1944 in Montana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 March 1 \u2013 A huge snowfall blocked many rural roads. The Red Cross began a fund-raising drive. \u2022 March 3 \u2013 One man was killed and two were injured in an explosion during construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad tunnel east of Bozeman. \u2022 March 4 \u2013 Doolittle Raider David Thatcher was interviewed on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/march-1944-montana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 1944 in Montana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[60,172,29,36,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}