{"id":132724,"date":"2024-09-24T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-american-aces-are-there\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T22:00:12","slug":"how-many-american-combat-aviation-aces-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=132724","title":{"rendered":"How Many American Combat Aviation &#8216;Aces&#8217; Are There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get to the two-part short answer, it would be useful to define what we mean by &#8220;ace.&#8221; For that, we turn to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanfighteraces.org\/the-aces\/?v=d43cf049304b#:~:text=The%20American%20Fighter%20Aces%20Association%20currently%20recognizes%201%2C447,who%20have%20gained%20the%20distinction%20of%20Fighter%20Ace.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >American Fighter Aces Association<\/a> (AFAA):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,447 American combat aviators are officially recognized as aces (5 or more kills). The number of *living* American aces is much smaller.<\/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":[396,397,628,1328,5680,708,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states-air-force","category-us-marines","category-us-navy","category-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132724","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=132724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132725,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132724\/revisions\/132725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}