{"id":134567,"date":"2024-09-29T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/impact-b-17-flying-fortresses-wwii-european-air-war\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T05:00:12","slug":"history-the-impact-of-us-b-17-flying-fortresses-in-the-wwii-european-air-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=134567","title":{"rendered":"History: The Impact Of US B-17 Flying Fortresses In The WWII European Air War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it wasn&#8217;t the bomber that actually ended the Second World War (that distinction and honor belongs to another Boeing product, the<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-29-superfortress-bomber-guide\/\" > B-29 Superfortress<\/a>), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeingstore.com\/products\/boeing-b-17-flying-fortress-heritage-tumbler\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress <\/a>was to bombers what the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/p-51-mustang-success-explanation\/\" >North American P-51D Mustang <\/a>was to fighters: the iconic symbol of American airpower during WWII.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An iconic symbol of American airpower, the B-17 was arguably the most impactful bomber in Western Europe during WWII.<\/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":[396,3116,398,408,412,6808],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-17","category-boeing","category-history","category-military","category-second-world-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134567","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=134567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134568,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134567\/revisions\/134568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}