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Fighter Pilots are listed below in alphabetical order. Details of the number of men per arm can be found on the Pilots Home page.

A B C D E-F G H-I-J K-L M N-O-P Q-R S-T U-V-W-X-Y-Z

Name	Rank	Unit	Informations	Vict. Sures	Vict. Prob.	Civil-Statut	Photo	Indiv Card	Citations
Baché	Captain	GC II/6 GC III/9 on August 27, 1940	Wounded in aerial combat on May 16, 1940
BAILLET Abel	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/4 on June 21, 1940	Assigned to GC I / 4 on June 21, 1940. Passed in AFN on June 21, 1940 with H75 No. 329.
BAIZE Marius Pierre	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3	Killed in aerial combat on 21 September 1939. He had the sad privilege of being the first fighter pilot shot down after the beginning of the conflict.			Born March 22nd 1912 at Lyon (69 - Rhône) Died at Bliesbruck (57 - Moselle) on 21/09/1939
BAL	Staff-Sergeant	ECN II/13	Machine-Gunner
BALADIER Raymond	Adjutant	ECN II/13	Radio_Machine-Gunner. Killed in aerial combat on May 27, 1940
BALLATORE André	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/7
BALLIN Georges	Sergeant	GC II/4	Wounded in aerial combat on May 10, 1940
BALLY Marcel	Sergeant	GC II/9	Killed in aerial combat on June 3, 1940
BALMER Albert	Chief Warrant Officer	DAT EtampesGC I/55		1	1
BANNES	Lieutenant	GC II/9 on June 8, 1940
BAPTIZET Georges		GC II/4 on August 1939		9	4
BARBERIS Robert	Sergeant	GC I/3		4	1
BARBEY	Sergeant	GC III/2	Wounded and taken prisoner on November 8, 1939
BARBIER Bernard Marie	Captain	GC I/4	Wounded in aerial combat on May 11, 1940	3		Born on 24/02/1913 at Raffelot (76 - Seine-Maritime) Killed on 15/03/1946 in Vietnam
BARBU Henri	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/10		1
BARDET Joseph	Lieutenant	GC I/1  GC II/9 on December 13, 1939	Transferred on 13 December 1939 to GCII/9. He was wounded in air combat on 3 June 1940.	1	1	Born on 18 December 1910 in Le Havre (76 - Seine-Maritime) Died 29 September 1973 at Villenave-d'Ormon (33 - Gironde)
BARDIN Paul	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/7GC III/2	Killed in aerial combat on May 16, 1940	4
BARITEL Pierre	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/9GC I/1 on October 1940	Wounded in aerial combat on June 2, 1940	1
BARNY-DE-ROMANET	Captain	GC III/5
BARRIO	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/2		-	2
BARTHOS	Lieutenant	GC I/3			1
BASSAGET Lucien	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/1
BASTIEN	Chief Warrant Officer	DAT ToursGC I/55
BATUT Robert	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/10 on May 11, 1940.	Killed in aerial combat on May 17, 1940
BAUDIN	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/8
BAUDOUIN Maurice	Captain	GC III/3
BAYLE Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/9		2
BEAU	Lieutenant	DAT Chateaudun	Killed in aerial combat on May 12, 1940
BEAULIEU	Sergeant	ECN IV/13
BECHOFF Roland - Luc	Lieutenant	GC II/10	Roland Bechoff, a reservist, was awarded a flying scholarship. During the French Campaign, he was assigned to the GC II/10. After the Armistice, he managed to escape from France via Spain. On arrival in England, he was posted to the ‘Ile de France’ group, RAF Sq 340 in 1942 and finally to Squadron 611 in 1944.			Born 28 July 1906, Paris (75) Died 1 January 2006, La Rochelle (17 - Charente-Maritime)
BECQUET Emile	Adjutant	GC II/1	Killed on a transfer on July 12, 1940	5	-	Born on June 08, 1914 at Derzeele Died on July 12, 1940
BEKARIAN André	Sergeant	GC III/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 24, 1940	1	1
BELLAND Victor	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/1		3	-
BELLEFIN Paul André	Sergeant	GC I/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 15, 1940	1	1	Born on 21/04/1915 at Lyon (69 - Rhône) Killed on the 14/05/1940 at Soulme (Belgium)
BENISSE Jean	Adjutant	DAT EtampesGC I/55		1	1
BENSON	Commander	GC II/1GC III/5
BERGER André	Adjutant	GC II/10
BERGON	Commander	GC III/7
BERLAND Georges	Adjutant	GC II/2		2	5
BERNACHE-ASSOLANT Jean	Captain	GC III/6 on November 03, 1939
BERNARD Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/9		2
BERNARDON Bertrand	Sergeant	GC III/7	Assigned to GC III/7 on 29 August 1939.	1
BERNAVON Adrien	Sergeant	GC II/2		3	5
BERTHET Louis - Antoine	Sergeant	GC II/7 GC III/7 in may 1940	Louis BERTHET enlisted voluntarily and joined the Istres flying school in 1937. He was posted to the GC II/7 in 1939 and then to the GC III/7 when this group was formed in May 1940. He was seriously wounded in air combat on 21 May 1940. In October 1943, he managed to escape from France via Spain. He joined AFN and was posted to the I/7 ‘Provence’ squadron. In 1945, he was sent to Indochina, then to Algeria in 1947 with GGI/1. On his return to France in 1949, he was posted to the Mont-de-Marsan base. Back in Algeria in 1952, he was posted in 1955 to command the 5eme RA in Algiers. He took command of the Oran squadron in 1958, then was posted to the GATAC in Algiers in 1960. He was posted to the Allied Forces Central Europe headquarters in 1961. Louis BERTHET was placed on aircrew leave in 1961.	4		Born on 7 November 1916 in Cours-les-Barres (18 - Cher) Died in Clamart (92 - Hauts de Seine) on 1 September 1997.
BERTOU	Commander	GC III/2
BERTRAND Bernard	Sergeant	GC I/6	Killed by accident on April 24, 1940
BERTRAND Jean	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/7	Seriously injured in air combat on May 31, 1940. In November 1942, after the invasion of the free zone, he reached North Africa and volunteered for Normandy-Niemen. He was killed on August 26, 1944.	3	2
BERTRAND	Adjutant	GC I/7
BERTRANDY Alfred	Staff-Sergeant	ECN III/13	Machine-gunner
BERTROU Paul - Marie	Captain	GC I/8 GC I/2 on December 4, 1939	Captain BERTROU will join the GC II/2 on January 12th 1940 as Group Commander. He will be killed in air combat on May, 12, 1940			Born 06 August 1902 at Tarbes (65 - Hautes Pyrénées) Died at Regniowez (08 - Ardennes) on 12 May 1940
BERTROU Paul	Commander	GC II/2	Killed in aerial combat on May 13, 1940	2	1
BES Moise	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/4	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 26, 1940	2
BESSAGUET	Adjutant	GC III/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 12, 1940
BETHEUIL	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/10	Transfered to the CIC of Salon on May 31, 1940
BEVILLARD Louis	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/3		2	2
BIARD Henri	Sergeant	GC II/3		1
BIGER Sébastien	Sub-Lieutenant	ECN I/13	Killed in aerial combat on June 3, 1940
BILLET	Lieutenant	GC III/2
BILLIOT Albert	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/4 on June 21, 1940	Assigned to GC I / 4 on June 21, 1940. Passed in AFN on June 21, 1940 with H75 No. 332
BILLOIN	Sergeant	GC II/8
BILLOIN Marcel	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/7	Assigned to the Group in March 1940.	3
BILLON Claudius	Captain	GC III/9	Wounded in aerial combat on June 1, 1940
BIREMBAUT	Chief Warrant Officer	ECN V/13	Machine-gunner
BISSOUDRE Maurice	Captain	GC II/3	Wounded in aerial combat on June 6, 1940	4	2
BLADINIER	Commander	DAT Chartres
BLANC Rodolphe	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/4 on March 1940,	Wounded in aerial combat on June 9, 1940		1
BLANCHARD Marcel	Adjutant	ECMJ I/16		1
BLANCHET	Captain	GC III/5
BLANCK Georges	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3		6	1	Born on 21/10/1914 at Pierrefontaine-les-Blamont (25 - Doubs) Died on 8/01/1990
BLETON Pierre - Charles	Sergeant	GC I/9 GC II/9	Pierre BLETON enlisted voluntarily in 1939 in Istres. He attended flying schools at Aulnat and Istres before being posted to the GC I/9 and then the GC II/9. Armisticie surprised him in Tunisia, and he made two unsuccessful attempts to reach London. He joined the national college of instructors and athletes in Antibes in 1941, then was posted to the GC II/7 in Bizerte and to the GC I/5. In November 1942, after the Allied landings in AFN, he volunteered for the ‘Normandy-Niemen’ squadron in Russia, joining the unit in June 1944. In 1947, he was posted to the DTIA, then to the Brétigny flight test centre. He was sent to the Far East with the 3rd Fighter Wing from March 1949 to May 1950. Pierre BLETON was demobilised on 7 September 1950.. Note: I have been able to identify another Sergeant BLETON who fought in GC I/10 and then GC III/5, but there is apparently no link between the two. I have therefore decided to consider these two men as two separate pilots, although this remains to be confirmed, particularly with the first names of Sergeant BLETON of GC I/10 & GC III/5.			Born on 13 October 1919 in Haïphong (Tonkin). Died in Paris (75) on 5 April 1996
BLETON	Sergeant	GC I/10GC III/5
BLONDEAU Eugène Henri	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/4	Killed by accident on June 14, 1940 during his first flight on curtiss H75			Born on the 27/01/1913 at Taverny (71 - Saône et Loire) Killed on the 14/06/1940 at Chateauroux (36 - Indre)
BODIN Jean	Sergeant	GC III/7		1
BOEDOZ	Adjutant	GC III/6
BOILEAU	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/2
BOILEAU Jean	Adjutant	DAT of Salon on May 28, 1940 GC I/3 on June 5, 1940				Born on 25/12/1907 at Mouy (60 - Oise) Killed on 31/03/1945 at Colmar (68 - Haut-Rhin)
BOILLOT Pierre - Charles	Sergeant	GC II/7	Pierre BOILLOT enlisted in 1936 and attended the Ecole d'Istres. He was posted to the GC II/7 at Dijon, with which he took part in the French campaign. In July 1940, he was posted to AFN at the Sidi Ahmed base before moving on to Kairouan and Biskra. From 15 November 1942, he took part in operations in Tunisia, Corsica, Italy and France. In 1946, he was posted to the 2nd fighter squadron, then to the Ecole de l'Air at Salon. In 1949, he joined the GC II/1 based at Sidi Ahmed in Tunisia, before joining the 4th Fighter Wing in Germany in 1950. He was appointed Commander of the III/4 squadron at Flandres in 1952 and was posted to the CEAM at Mont-de-Marsan in April 1953. He was posted to the Orange fighter wing in 1959, then to Oran at the GATAC. On his return from Algeria, he was called up to the Cazaux training base. In August 1964, he became commander of the Romilly base. He was posted to the 2nd Tactical Air Corps (CATAC) in Nancy in 1968, then to the Air Territorial Administrative Centre (CATA) in Le Bourget in 1969. Pierre BOILLOT retired in 1974.	3	3	Born on 22 June 1918 in Liaissey (25 - Doubs) Died in Paris (75) on 1 September 1994.
BOILLOT Raymond	Captain	GC III/2
BOIRIES	Lieutenant	CIC d'OranGC III/10 on June 13, 1940
BOISSEL Pierre	Lieutenant	GC II/2	Killed in aerial combat on June 16, 1940
BOITELET Hubert - Raymond	Lieutenant	GC I/5	Hubert BOITELET volunteered in 1931 and was posted to the 7th Wing. He entered the Versailles Air Academy in 1937 and was posted to the 5th Wing in Reims. He took part in the French campaign with the I/5 group and won five victories. Demobilised after the Armistice, he was recalled to active service in Meknes in 1944 and joined the Cognac school in 1945. He was posted to Marrakech in 1949, Friedrichshafen in 1951, and was appointed commander of the operational group in Oujda in 1955. He became head of the 3rd reserves office in the 3rd air region in 1956. Hubert BOITELET was retired in 1959 and transferred to the reserves.	5		Born on 7 December 1911 in Panderma (Turkey). Died on 19 August 2009 in Bergerac (24 - Dordogne)
BOMPAIN David	Sergeant	GC I/4	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 17, 1940	2
BONNET	Adjutant	DAT ToursGC I/55
BOQUET	Sergeant	ECN IV/13	Machine-Gunner
BORNE André	Commander	GC II/4 on May 15, 1939	Killed in aerial combat on June 16, 1940
BOUBE Henri	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/4 from April 27, 1940 to July 25, 1940
BOUDIER Paul	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/5 on March 14, 1940		3	1
BOUFFIER Henri	Sergeant	GC I/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 18, 1940	1
BOUGET Jacques	Sergeant	GC I/7GC II/9	Killed by accident on February 12, 1940
BOUHY André	Sergeant	GC II/5 on August 1939		4	1
BOUIN	Sergeant	GC III/6 on April 5, 1940
BOURBON Louis	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/3	Wounded in aerial combat on June 6, 1940	2	1
BOURDON	Sergeant	GC II/7			1
BOURLON Emile	Chief Warrant Officer	ECN II/13	Killed in aerial combat on May 27, 1940
BOURSAIN André	Sub-Lieutenant	ECN I/13		1
BOURSELOT	Lieutenant	GC II/10
BOURTHOUMIEU André	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/3	Wounded by accident on August 28, 1939
BOUSQUEYNAUD	Sergeant	GC II/10 on June 11, 1940
BOUSSERAT	Sergeant	ECN IV/13	Machine-Gunner
BOUTAREL Pierre Edmond	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3	Second Lieutenant Pierre BOUTAREL joined the GC 3/6 Roussillon and was killed in air combat on 01/05/1944	3	1	Born on the 24/02/1917 at Ploermel (56 - Morbihan) Killed on 01/05/1944 at Oran (Algeria)
BOUTILLON Robert	Adjudant	ECN I/13	Machine-Gunner
BOUTON	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 21, 1940		1
BOUTON Serge	Lieutenant	GC II/7		2	1
BOUTTIER Guy	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/2		3	3
BOUVARD Louis	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/5	Wounded in aerial combat on May 13, 1940,	2	1
BOUVARRE Pierre - Gérard	Captain	GC I/1 GC III/7	Pierre BOUVARRE entered the Ecole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1931, then the Ecole militaire et d'application de l'armée de l'Air de Versailles in 1933. He left for Tunisia as Squadron Commander of the 25th Wing in 1936 and then became Squadron Commander of the 7th Wing in 1938. He took part in the French Campaign with the GC III/7 fighter group in May 1939, then with the GC I/1. After the Armistice, he was seconded to the Secretary of State for Youth and Education and then to the Navy. He joined the Resistance in 1942 and was posted to Meknes in November 1944 before taking part in the French and German campaigns in 1945. He took over as second-in-command of the Cognac training base in 1947, then became an instructor at the Mersbourg school in 1948. He was appointed Commander of the Sidi-Ahmed base in 1950, then Chief of Staff of the air region in 1954. He was appointed Commander of the combined air operations school at Baden-Oos in 1957 before becoming Commander of the Taverny centre in 1960. He became Head of the Military Air Traffic Service on 1st March 1961, then Commander of the 2nd Air Region in 1962. Pierre BOUVARRE left the active army in 1965 with the rank of Air Division General.	3		Born in Coudekerque-Branche (59 - Nord) on 13 September 1910 Died in Versailles (78 - Yvelines) on 18 November 1997
BOUYGUES	Staff-Sergeant	DAT Etampes GC I/55
BOUYSSE Raymond	Lieutenant	GC I/8 GC III/9		2	1
BOYER Jean	Sergeant	GC II/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 31, 1940
BOYER Charles	Sergeant	GC II/4 on May 15, 1939GC III/7 spring 1940	Assigned to the Group in March 1940. Seriously injured in aerial combat on June 9, 1940	2	1
BOYER Jean-Pierre	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/6	Taken prisoner on June 23, 1940
BOYER Léo	Adjutant	GC III/7	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 13, 1940	2
BOYMOND Emile	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/6 on October 19, 1939	Killed in aerial combat on May 14, 1940
BOYREAU	Sub-Lieutenant	CIC Chartres GC III/9
BRAGEOT	Sergeant	GC I/2
BREITENSTEIN André	Sergeant	GC II/2		3	1
BREJEAN	Sergeant	GC I/9
BRESSIEUX Jérémie	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/5		8
BRET Albert	Lieutenant	GC III/3 GC I/4 on June 21, 1940	Assigned to GC I / 4 June 21, 1940. Passed in AFN June 21, 1940 with H75 No. 328.
BRET Emile	Sergeant	GC II/7	Wounded in aerial combat on June 5, 1940	2	3
BRIAN Georges	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/5 on August 1939 CEMA on January 4, 1940GC I/5 on June 10, 1940		1
BRICART Raoul	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/2		4	2
BRISOU René	Sergeant	GC II/1	Wounded in aerial combat on May 14, 1940	2	-
BRODEAU	Lieutenant	GC III/7
BRUCKERT Henri	Adjutant	GC I/2	Killed in aerial combat on April 2, 1940	-	1	Born 23 March 1912 at Illkirch (67 - Bas-Rhin) Died at Ernstein (67 - Bas-Rhin) on 02 April 1940
BRUHAT	Lieutenant	GC III/10
BRUN Aimé	Lieutenant	GC II/1	Wounded in aerial combat on June 11, 1940
BRUNEAU Germain	Lieutenant	GC I/7
BRUNEAU Henry	Captain	GC I/6	Killed in aerial combat on May 18, 1940	1	2
BRUYERE	Staff-Sergeant	ECMJ I/16	Machine-Gunner
BUDAN-DE-RUSSE Pierre	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/6 (GCIII/9 on August 27 1940)		1	1
BUGNET	Lieutenant	GC III/9
BUISSON	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/5
BURDET	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/9 GC III/10 on May 17, 1940