{"id":1520,"date":"2018-02-22T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1520"},"modified":"2023-11-25T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T01:24:09","slug":"p-61-black-widow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/p-61-black-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"P-61 Black Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1521\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Northrop_P-61_green_airborne.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1521\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Northrop_P-61_green_airborne-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Northrop_P-61_green_airborne-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Northrop_P-61_green_airborne-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Northrop_P-61_green_airborne-1024x782.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NORTHROP P-61 in flight. Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter had pilot, radar operator, and gunner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom was trained to pilot the P-61, and was ultimately shot down in this aircraft at the end of WWII.<\/p>\n<p>The P-61 was a twin-engined fighter aircraft, designed to intercept enemy aircraft, at night, using newly developed radar. It was designed for a 3-person crew,\u00a0 a pilot, radar operator, and gunner, although in practice, it often flew with just the pilot and radar operator.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C3NrEXeIYbM?si=nCuqLQ-povqyzSaT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" style=\"width: 1296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/417th-NFS-P-61s-at-St.-Dizier-France-April-1945.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1522\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/417th-NFS-P-61s-at-St.-Dizier-France-April-1945.jpg\" alt=\"417th NFS P-61s at St. Dizier, France, April 1945\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/417th-NFS-P-61s-at-St.-Dizier-France-April-1945.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/417th-NFS-P-61s-at-St.-Dizier-France-April-1945-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/417th-NFS-P-61s-at-St.-Dizier-France-April-1945-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/417th-NFS-P-61s-at-St.-Dizier-France-April-1945-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">417th NFS P-61s at St. Dizier, France, April 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Description<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1523\" style=\"width: 1296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P-61-Aircraft-just-delivered-to-the-417th-NFS-March-1945.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1523\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P-61-Aircraft-just-delivered-to-the-417th-NFS-March-1945.jpg\" alt=\"P-61 Aircraft just delivered to the 417th NFS, March, 1945\" width=\"1296\" height=\"870\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P-61-Aircraft-just-delivered-to-the-417th-NFS-March-1945.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P-61-Aircraft-just-delivered-to-the-417th-NFS-March-1945-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P-61-Aircraft-just-delivered-to-the-417th-NFS-March-1945-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P-61-Aircraft-just-delivered-to-the-417th-NFS-March-1945-1024x687.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">P-61 Aircraft just delivered to the 417th NFS, March, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vDUHjD0MLqY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom was trained to pilot the P-61, and was ultimately shot down in this aircraft at the end of WWII. The P-61 was a twin-engined fighter aircraft, designed to intercept enemy aircraft, at night, using newly developed radar. It was designed for a 3-person crew,\u00a0 a pilot, radar operator, and gunner, although in practice, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/p-61-black-widow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P-61 Black Widow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520\/revisions\/4832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}