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"This ground-support work was reported by the 3rd Army Staff to have been particularly effective. Moreover, on 3rd May the Sopwith one and a half strutters of No. 43 Squadron, flying counter-attack patrols during an assault on the Hindenburg Line near Bullecourt and with orders to concentrate on reporting immediately any enemy preparations for a counter-attack, where instructed when they reported a build up to make very low level machine gun and bomb attacks on the enemy positions, and did that during the morning and the afternoon of that day and the next.
Sholto Douglas, later Marshall of the Royal Air Force, flew one of these two seater Sopwith's and has recorded that ground strafing up to that time had been a somewhat haphazard sort of business, but from then on it became a more highly organised and carefully developed part of the activities of the Flying Corps. But, as we shall see, all too often the evolution close ground support doctrine and tactics in the RFC was to be distinguished more by vague planning and careless execution than by a high level of organisation and careful development during the ensuing six months of 3rd Ypres."

Slug a écrit :Merci à vous,

et quand à l'application de cet aspect dans RoF? mouvements d'infanterie, attaque de tranchée... ect... aucune mission ne permet de simmer tout ça?