{"id":135268,"date":"2024-10-01T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/p-38-vs-mosquito-better-wwii-fighter\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T03:00:12","slug":"usaac-p-38-lightning-vs-raf-de-havilland-mosquito-which-was-the-better-wwii-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=135268","title":{"rendered":"USAAC P-38 Lightning Vs RAF De Havilland Mosquito: Which Was The Better WWII Fighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aahh, gotta love the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ICS_EUR_United-Kingdom_Public.pdf#:~:text=The%20famously%20%E2%80%9Cspecial%E2%80%9D%20relationship%20between%20the%20United%20States,shared%20goals%20across%20a%20broad%20range%20of%20interests.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >&#8220;special relationship&#8221; <\/a>between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Arguably, the greatest demonstration of that special relationship was during the Second World War, when the two nations pooled their manpower and industrial might as part of the Allies against the Axis of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two fantastic twin-engine Allied WWII fighters: Amerca&#8217;s Lightning and Britain&#8217;s Mosquito. Was one truly better than the other?<\/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":[396,397,6247,13176,412,411,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-de-havilland","category-lockheed-p-38-lightning","category-military","category-royal-air-force","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135268","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=135268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135269,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135268\/revisions\/135269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}