{"id":5732,"date":"2015-08-10T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2015-08-10T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:32:37","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-9-15-august-1943-us-air-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 9&#8211;15 August 1943: US air power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5730\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5730\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5730\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5730\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wusairforce-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"B-25 Mitchell of the USAAF 12th Bombardment Group, WWII [Public domain]\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wusairforce-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wusairforce-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Wusairforce.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B-25 Mitchells of the USAAF 12th Bombardment Group, WWII [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>US air power was expanding on every front. On 13 August 1943 alone:<\/p>\n<p>B-24 bombers of the US 380th Heavy Bomber Group flew from Australia to raid the Japanese-held oilfields in Borneo;<\/p>\n<p>US bombers staged the first air raid of the war against an Austrian city by bombing Wiener Neustadt, 50 kilometers from Vienna;<\/p>\n<p>and, in an attempt to force Italy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5708\">Badoglio government<\/a> (which had taken over from Mussolini) to sue for peace, over 250 bombers of the US 12th Air Force attacked Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the Italians declared Rome an \u2018open city\u2019 to avoid further air raids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US air power was expanding on every front. On 13 August 1943 alone: B-24 bombers of the US 380th Heavy Bomber Group flew from Australia to raid the Japanese-held oilfields in Borneo; US bombers staged the first air raid of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[324,907,908],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-badoglio","tag-bombers","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}