{"id":91230,"date":"2024-07-21T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jimmy-stewart-stellar-record-us-army-air-corps-ww2-b-24-pilot\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:00:11","slug":"no-vertigo-jimmy-stewarts-stellar-record-as-a-us-army-air-corps-ww2-b-24-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=91230","title":{"rendered":"No Vertigo: Jimmy Stewart&#8217;s Stellar Record As A US Army Air Corps WW2 B-24 Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    James Stewart (Jimmy) led a remarkable career as both a bomber pilot and an actor. He flew some of the US&#8217;s most iconic bombers, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-24-bomber-history\/\">B-24 Consolidated Liberator<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-active-b-52-guide\/\">the venerable B-52 Superfortress<\/a>. He was the only Hollywood star to serve in World War II and flew 20 combat missions in heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bomber\/\">bombers<\/a>. Not all the remarkable people in the history of aviation are pilots. Before and contemporary with Stewart was the wealthy widow <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleflying.com\/clara-adams-aviation-pioneer-facts-list\/\">Clara Adams, who was an avid pioneer of commercial flying<\/a> and was the first passenger on many airships and Pan Am Clipper flights.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Stewart enjoyed one of the most remarkable bomber pilot and acting careers of WWII and the early Cold War.<\/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":[396,2038,8977,408,412,3005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-cold-war","category-history","category-military","category-us-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91230","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=91230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91231,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91230\/revisions\/91231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}