{"id":261643,"date":"2025-08-04T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-b-17-flying-fortresses-built\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:00:19","slug":"how-many-b%e2%80%9117-flying-fortresses-were-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261643","title":{"rendered":"How Many B\u201117 Flying Fortresses Were Built?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk of the United States&#8217; industrial war effort in World War II went into the production of aircraft and naval vessels. The Army&#8217;s vehicles, like tanks, were a comparatively small part of the overall industrial effort. Throughout the conflict, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028249\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-american-aircraft-produced-lost-ww2\/\" >the United States industry produced around 300,000 aircraft of all types<\/a><\/span>. Whereas the Soviet Union&#8217;s aircraft production was heavily weighted to small fighters, the US production included many expensive heavy bombers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 12,000 Boeing B-17s produced, the Flying Fortress is the most produced Boeing bomber and the second most produced bomber of 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":[396,3116,1455,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-17","category-bomber","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261643","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=261643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261645,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261643\/revisions\/261645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}