{"id":23884,"date":"2024-04-01T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/world-war-2-fighter-planes-at-smithsonian\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T03:45:12","slug":"top-5-cant-miss-world-war-2-fighter-planes-on-display-at-the-smithsonian-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=23884","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Can&#8217;t Miss World War 2 Fighter Planes On Display At The Smithsonian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/spotlight\/wwii-aircraft\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Smithsonian Museum<\/a> is famously home to a rewarding array of historic aircraft including a great collection of American WWII aircraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/world-war-2\/\">WWII<\/a> saw the size of American <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/category\/military-aviation\/\">military aviation<\/a> balloon from around 2,500 airplanes to almost 300,000 by the war&#39;s end. The Smithsonian exhibits some of <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleflying.com\/second-world-war-iconic-carrier-based-aircraft-list\/\">WWII&#39;s most iconic carrier-based aircraft<\/a> and strategic bombers, like the B-29 and many other types of aircraft that contributed to the war effort. Here are five top picks of the museum&#39;s 30 WWII-era American military aircraft collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian has many iconic American WWII aircraft on display from massive strategic bombers to humble biplane trainers.<\/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":[396,628,408,409,1885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-world-war-ii","category-wwii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23884","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=23884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23885,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23884\/revisions\/23885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}