{"id":5834,"date":"2016-09-14T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:57:23","slug":"smith-sebie-biggs-1908-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5834","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, SEBIE BIGGS, 1908-2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Military officer; aviator; newspaper executive.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Hinds, Mississippi, November 2, 1908.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Elbert P. and Mattie Smith.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Lucy Amelia Hudson, 1938.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. 1940-42, worked for Emery-Riddle School of Aviation, Miami; 1942-46, active duty with U.S.Army Air Corps (later U.S.Air Force); 1945-65, U.S.Air Force Reserve, retired 1965 with rank of colonel.\u00a0 Worked as a newspaper executive in Montgomery. Inducted into the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame, 1993.\u00a0 Died February 28, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Quest to Fly:\u00a0 Memories and Photographs of China, with the American and Chinese Air Forces, 1936-1940.\u00a0 NewSouth Books, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Military officer; aviator; newspaper executive.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Hinds, Mississippi, November 2, 1908.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Elbert P. and Mattie Smith.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Lucy Amelia Hudson, 1938.\u00a0 Children&#8211;five. 1940-42, worked for Emery-Riddle School of Aviation, Miami; 1942-46, active duty with U.S.Army Air Corps (later U.S.Air Force); 1945-65, U.S.Air Force Reserve, retired 1965 with rank of colonel.\u00a0 Worked as a newspaper executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}