{"id":1919,"date":"2018-02-12T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaetanmarie.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T08:58:23","slug":"encore-des-fortress-britanniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/encore-des-fortress-britanniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Encore des Fortress britanniques !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1916\" src=\"https:\/\/gaetanmarie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RAF-Fortress-II-FA704-No-206-Squadron-Wg-Cdr-R.-B.-Thompson-11-June-1943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RAF-Fortress-II-FA704-No-206-Squadron-Wg-Cdr-R.-B.-Thompson-11-June-1943.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RAF-Fortress-II-FA704-No-206-Squadron-Wg-Cdr-R.-B.-Thompson-11-June-1943-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ce Fortress II (serial FA704) \u00e9tait pilot\u00e9 par le Wing Commander Ron Thomson DSO et son \u00e9quipage du No 206 Squadron bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Benbecula, dans les \u00eeles Hebrides. Cet appareil s\u2019ab\u00eema dans l&rsquo;Atlantique le 11 juin 1943, son \u00e9quipage d\u00e9rivant dans un canot pendant 4 jours avant d&rsquo;\u00eatre secouru par un Catalina pilot\u00e9 par le S\/L Jack Holmes DFC.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1917\" src=\"https:\/\/gaetanmarie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RAF-Fortress-III-KJ117-44-8620-No-223-Squadron-RAF-Oulton-1944-1945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RAF-Fortress-III-KJ117-44-8620-No-223-Squadron-RAF-Oulton-1944-1945.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/RAF-Fortress-III-KJ117-44-8620-No-223-Squadron-RAF-Oulton-1944-1945-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Le No 100 Group de la RAF \u00e9tait une unit\u00e9 sp\u00e9ciale cr\u00e9\u00e9e pour contrer la menace grandissante pos\u00e9e aux bombardiers nocturnes par les chasseurs de nuit allemands. Les premiers <em>squadrons<\/em> du group \u00e9taient principalement des unit\u00e9s de chasse escortant les bombardiers et harcelant les chasseurs de nuit allemands sur leurs bases. Le No 100 Group devint \u00e9galement l&rsquo;une des premi\u00e8res unit\u00e9s sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9es en contre-mesures \u00e9lectroniques, brouillant \u00e0 la fois le r\u00e9seau de d\u00e9tection radar allemand et les communications radio, r\u00e9duisant ainsi l&rsquo;efficacit\u00e9 de la chasse de nuit allemande. Ce Boeing Fortress III faisait partie du No 223 Squadron en mai 1945 et \u00e9tait bas\u00e9 sur la base de RAF Oulton. Il est \u00e9quip\u00e9 d&rsquo;un radar H2S sous le nez et de nombreux \u00e9quipements de brouillage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ce Fortress II (serial FA704) \u00e9tait pilot\u00e9 par le Wing Commander Ron Thomson DSO et son \u00e9quipage du No 206 Squadron bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Benbecula, dans les \u00eeles Hebrides. Cet appareil s\u2019ab\u00eema dans l&rsquo;Atlantique le 11 juin 1943, son \u00e9quipage d\u00e9rivant dans un canot pendant 4 jours avant d&rsquo;\u00eatre secouru par un Catalina pilot\u00e9 par le&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/encore-des-fortress-britanniques\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Encore des Fortress britanniques !<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,38,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boeing-b-17-flying-fortress-fr","category-illustrations-fr","category-seconde-guerre-mondiale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}