{"id":122974,"date":"2024-09-08T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-early-jet-fighters-wwii\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T12:00:12","slug":"5-early-jet-fighters-of-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=122974","title":{"rendered":"5 Early Jet Fighters Of World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    As <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wwii\/\">World War II<\/a> drew to a close, the fighter jet age had dawned. Great Britain and Germany led the charge and had operational <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter jets<\/a> by May 1945. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-facts-lockheed-p-80-shooting-star-turbo-jet-fighter\/\">The United States (with the P-50 Shooting Star)<\/a> and Japan followed behind and were nearly fielding their first fighter jets. Italy had a fighter jet program, but it was defeated in 1943, and the Soviet Union was far behind (the USSR quickly caught up post-war with captured German technology and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-soviets-reverse-engineered-british-jet-engines-mig-15-korean-war\/\">reverse-engineered British jet engine technology<\/a>). Here are five early fighter jets of World War II.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fighter jets didn&#8217;t clash directly in WWII, they were coming into service by the end of the conflict, and the jet fighter age had dawned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,628,408,5024,395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-world-war-2","category-ww2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122975,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122974\/revisions\/122975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}