{"id":65249,"date":"2024-06-14T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-historic-missions-b-52-stratofortress\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T22:00:13","slug":"top-5-historic-missions-of-the-b-52-stratofortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=65249","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Historic Missions Of The B-52 Stratofortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            To repeat what I&#8217;ve said on my <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/author\/christian-orr\/\">Simple Flying author bio page<\/a>, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress AKA the &#8220;BUFF (&#8220;Big Ugly Fat Fellow&#8221; in polite company, but in reality, it&#8217;s &#8220;Big Ugly Fat F*cker&#8221;) is one of my Top 2 personal favorite warplanes of all time (the other being the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/82nd-anniversary-battle-of-midway-and-role-carrier-airpower\/\">Douglas SBD Dauntless<\/a>). If you will indulge me in a moment of Yank flag-waving here, nothing says &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess With The US of A&#8221; quite like a B-52 carpet-bombing raid does.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-52 is America&#8217;s most accomplished bomber of the post-WWII era. Let&#8217;s take a look at some of this illustrious aircraft&#8217;s most defining missions.<\/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":[396,2038,398,8977,408,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-boeing","category-cold-war","category-history","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65249","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=65249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65250,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65249\/revisions\/65250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}