{"id":2112,"date":"2018-04-05T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaetanmarie.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2018-04-05T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T22:14:37","slug":"as-sur-spitfire-bennions-johnson-plagis-and-sheperd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/as-sur-spitfire-bennions-johnson-plagis-and-sheperd\/","title":{"rendered":"As sur Spitfire : Bennions, Johnson, Plagis and Sheperd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr\u00e8s les as sur Hurricane, voici quelques-uns des as sur Spitfire les plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bres de la Royal Air Force.<\/p>\n

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Spitfire Mk Ia X4559 pilot\u00e9 par le S\/L George \u00ab\u00a0Ben\u00a0\u00bb Bennions, No 41 Squadron, Royal Air Force.<\/p>\n

George Bennions \u00e9tait l’un des premiers as de la Bataille d’Angleterre, obtenant 12 victoires avant d’\u00eatre abattu et bless\u00e9 le 1er octobre 1940.<\/p>\n

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Spitfire Mk IXc ML214 pilot\u00e9 par le S\/L John Plagis, commandant du No 126 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1944.<\/p>\n

Rhod\u00e9sien d’origine grecque, Ioannis Agorastos \u00ab\u00a0John\u00a0\u00bb Plagis DSO, DFC & Bar (1919\u20131974) s’illustra notamment lors de la d\u00e9fense de Malte en 1942. Avec 16 victoires a\u00e9riennes confirm\u00e9es, dont 11 \u00e0 Malte, il est le premier as rhod\u00e9sien, et le premier as d’origine grecque.<\/p>\n

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Spitfire Mk IXc EN398 pilot\u00e9 par le Wg Cdr \u00ab\u00a0Johnnie\u00a0\u00bb Johnson, No 144 (RCAF) Wing, 1943.<\/p>\n

L’Air Vice Marshal James Edgar \u00ab\u00a0Johnnie\u00a0\u00bb Johnson CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar (1915-2001) remporta 34 victoires homologu\u00e9es, ainsi que 7 victoires en collaboration, 3 probables en collaboration, 10 appareils endommag\u00e9s, 3 endommag\u00e9s en collaboration et un appareil d\u00e9truit au sol, faisant de lui l’as des as britanniques sur le front occidental.<\/p>\n

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Spitfire Mk XIV SM825 pilot\u00e9 par le S\/L John Sheperd, DFC, No 41 Squadron, Royal Air Force, avril 1945.<\/p>\n

Aux commandes du Spitfire SM825, l’as aux vingt victoires John Sheperd rencontra un Messerschmitt Bf 110 tractant un Messerschmitt Me 163 le 14 avril 1945 et les abattit tous les deux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apr\u00e8s les as sur Hurricane, voici quelques-uns des as sur Spitfire les plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bres de la Royal Air Force. Spitfire Mk Ia X4559 pilot\u00e9 par le S\/L George \u00ab\u00a0Ben\u00a0\u00bb Bennions, No 41 Squadron, Royal Air Force. George Bennions \u00e9tait l’un des premiers as de la Bataille d’Angleterre, obtenant 12 victoires avant d’\u00eatre abattu et bless\u00e9…Continue reading As sur Spitfire : Bennions, Johnson, Plagis and Sheperd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,97,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrations-fr","category-seconde-guerre-mondiale","category-supermarine-spitfire-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","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=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaetanmarie.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}