{"id":581,"date":"2013-01-29T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T10:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/caf\/?p=581"},"modified":"2013-01-29T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T10:35:30","slug":"profil-p-40b-warhawk-de-george-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/2013\/01\/29\/profil-p-40b-warhawk-de-george-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"Profil: P-40B Warhawk de George Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Welch fut l'un des rares pilotes am\u00e9ricains \u00e0 prendre les airs lors de l'attaque japonaise sur Pearl Harbor. Lors d'une premi\u00e8re sortie, il revendiqua deux victoires sur des Aichi D3A Val. En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, le premier Val fut endommag\u00e9 et rejoint son porte-avions, tandis que le second fut achev\u00e9 par Ken Taylor, l'ailier de Welch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/US-P-40B-41-XXXXX-2Lt-George-Welch-47-PS-15-PG-1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-583\" alt=\"US, P-40B, 41-XXXXX, 2Lt George Welch, 47 PS, 15 PG, 1941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/US-P-40B-41-XXXXX-2Lt-George-Welch-47-PS-15-PG-1941.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Lors d'une seconde sortie, Welch parvint \u00e0 abattre un Val, qui s'\u00e9crasa a Wahiawa, puis remporta une victoire sur un A6M Zero pr\u00e8s de Barbers Point.<\/p>\n<p>Welch poursuivit le combat contre les Japonais sur P-39 Airacobra et P-38 Lightning, au cours de trois tours d'op\u00e9ration. Atteint par la malaria, il fut contraint de se retirer du combat et devint pilote d'essais pour North American en 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Pilote d'essais du F-86 Sabre, Welch affirma avoir franchi le mur du son deux semaines avant le vol historique de Chuck Yeager \u00e0 bord du Bell X-1. Ses affirmations, bien que fortement d\u00e9battues, sont soutenues par certains observateurs et historiens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Welch fut l'un des rares pilotes am\u00e9ricains \u00e0 prendre les airs lors de l'attaque japonaise sur Pearl Harbor. Lors d'une premi\u00e8re sortie, il revendiqua deux victoires sur des Aichi D3A Val. En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, le premier Val fut endommag\u00e9 et rejoint son porte-avions, tandis que le second fut achev\u00e9 par Ken Taylor, l'ailier de Welch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,48,52],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divers","tag-obsession","tag-p-40-warhawk","tag-profils"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NZ1W-9n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caffrenchwing.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}