{"id":163026,"date":"2024-12-31T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-b-29-superfortress-never-sent-europe-ww2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:00:15","slug":"why-was-the-b-29-superfortress-not-sent-to-europe-during-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=163026","title":{"rendered":"Why Was The B-29 Superfortress Not Sent To Europe During WW2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"724150\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing B-29 Superfortress<\/span><\/span> is undeniably one of the most iconic aircraft of the WWI, with its four-engine configuration and unique cockpit design. As the aircraft that delivered the nuclear weapons &#8220;Little Boy&#8221; and &#8220;Fat Man&#8221; on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/80-years-on-how-us-b-29-superfortress-helped-end-wwii\/\" >which remain the only two times nuclear bombs have ever been deployed in combat<\/a>, it is impossible to argue that the B-29 did not play a crucial role during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft was never used in the European theater.<\/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":[396,13063,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-b-29-superfortress","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163026","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=163026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163027,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163026\/revisions\/163027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}