{"id":276862,"date":"2025-09-01T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1418469"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:03:00","slug":"wwiis-highest-scoring-fighter-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276862","title":{"rendered":"WWII\u2019s highest-scoring fighter ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P060_Feature_Clive-Caldwell-SR_02-1024x518.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1419313 wp-post-1418469\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P060_Feature_Clive-Caldwell-SR_02-770x431.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P060_Feature_Clive-Caldwell-SR_02-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P060_Feature_Clive-Caldwell-SR_02-150x76.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P060_Feature_Clive-Caldwell-SR_02-768x388.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P060_Feature_Clive-Caldwell-SR_02-770x431.jpeg 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>In this exclusive extract from his new book, Colin Burgess speaks to Clive Caldwell, the man dubbed \u2018killer\u2019 for vanquishing 28 enemy aircraft. Clive Caldwell is, without doubt, Australia\u2019s most successful fighter pilot of WWII. Born in Sydney in 1911, he came to the RAAF in 1940 at an age too old to sign up,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this exclusive extract from his new book, Colin Burgess speaks to Clive Caldwell, the man dubbed \u2018killer\u2019 for vanquishing 28 enemy aircraft. Clive Caldwell is, without doubt, Australia\u2019s most successful fighter pilot of WWII. Born in Sydney in 1911,&#8230;<\/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":[17947,273,312,4773,477],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-276862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17947","category-australia","category-aviation","category-premium-article","category-premium-content","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276862","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=276862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276863,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276862\/revisions\/276863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}