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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
NAST Robert	Commander	GC I/5				Born on 17 July 1893
NAUDIN André	Lieutenant	GC I/4	Wounded in aerial combat on May 11, 1940
NAUDY	Captain	GC II/1 GC II/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 31, 1940	4	4
NAVARRE	Sergeant	GC III/7
NEDELEC Jean	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/2	Wounded in aerial combat on May 24, 1940	4	1
NICOLE Maurice	Adjutant	GC II/8	Wounded in aerial combat on June 9, 1940	2	1
NICOU	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/8
NODET	Captain	GC II/1
NOLLET Jean	Colonel	DAT Chateaudun
NOUVEL Louis	Aspirant	CIC Montpellier
O'BYRNE Patrick Henry	Captain	GC I/4	Injured in Air Combat May 10 1940. He will join the group in AFN aboard the H75 A-4			Born May 11th 1909 at Bresson (38 - Isère) Died on 29/06/1977 at Rabastens (81 - Tarn)
OCTAVE Jean Robert	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/3		2	1
ODIN	Sub-Lieutenant	ECN IV/13
OLIVIER	Sergeant	GC II/4 on May 1939
OZANNE Jean - Marie	Lieutenant	GC I/7 GC I/1 on March 6, 1940 GC III/10 on April 15, 1940	Former Polytechnique student. First posted to the Chartres CIC from 27 September 1939 to 6 March 1940, he then joined the GC I/1 and was transferred to the GC III/10 on 15 April. He commanded the GC I/2 from 1944 to 1945.			Born on 9 May 1912 in Gruchet-le-Valasse (76 - Seine-Maritime) Died at Caen (14 - Calvados) on 29 November 1978
PAGES	Sergeant	GC I/6	Wounded in aerial combat on May 20, 1940
PAILLARD-TURENNE Georges	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/10		1
PAILLONCY	Sergeant	GC I/10 GC II/9 on June 11, 1940
PALLIER Gabriel	Commander	GC I/1 Air School April 14, 1940	Gabriel PALLIER, who joined the French Air Force in 1915, fought as a fighter pilot and was credited with two probable victories. He joined the Saumur Officer Training School in 1921 and 1922 and, with the rank of Lieutenant, was posted to Syria. On his return to France, he was posted to the Ecole d'Avord and promoted to Captain. From 1931 to 1934, he joined the 4th Indochina Escadrille, where he flew raids on Potez 25 TOEs. He returned to France to take command of the 1ere Escadre d'Aviation légère de Défense before taking command of GC I/1, then based at Etampes, in October 1936. Transferred on 14 April 1940 to the Saint-Cyr pilot school, he tried in June 1940 to transfer his school to North Africa, but the limited autonomy of his aircraft decided otherwise. He was appointed acting commander of the Toulouse-Francazal air park, but refusing to collaborate, he preferred to ask to be put on leave before joining the FFI in Paris in 1943. He took part in the liberation of Paris. He rejoined the Air Force in 1947 and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel. He held various administrative posts before retiring in 1951.			Born on 19 October 1896 in Quang-Yen (Tonkin) Died at Fréjus (83 - Var) on 23 July 1990
PANHARD René	Sergeant	GC II/7		5
PAOLI	Commander	GC III/1
PAPE Joel Marie	Captain	GC I/3	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 23, 1940	3
PAPIN-LABAZORDIERE -RUILLIER-BEAUFOND Marie	Captain	GC II/7		3	3
PARATILLA René	Sergeant	GC II/7	Killed by accident on September 8, 1939
PARENT Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/2		2	4
PARIS	Sergeant	GC II/9		1
PARISSE Jean - Georges	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 21, 1940		1
PARISSE Jean Georges	Sergeant	GC I/1 Versailles on September 30, 1939 GC I/3	Transferred on 30 September to the Versailles School. He later joined the GC I/3 and was killed in air combat on 21 May 1940.			Born on 29 June 1917 at Varangéville (54 - Meurthe et Moselle) Killed on 21 May 1940 at Fourchette (80 - Somme)
PARNIERE Marcel	Sub-Lieutenant	Staff 5th Fighter Squadron GC I/5 on January 4, 1940	Wounded in aerial combat on June 3, 1940	8	1
PASCAIL Pierre	Sergeant	DAT Etampes
PASCAL Pierre	Lieutenant	GC II/9	Killed in aerial combat on June 11, 1940
PASSEMARD Amédée	Sergeant	GC II/7		4	1
PATOOR Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/1		2	-
PATROU	Lieutenant	GC III/3
PATUREAU-MIRAND Raoul - Marie	Captain	GC I/2	Killed in aerial combat on June 17, 1940	4	1	Born in Chateauroux (36 - Indre) on 22 February 1913 Died at La Charité-sur-loire (58 - Nièvre) on 17 June 1940
PATURLE Jacques	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/6	Wounded in aerial combat on May 18, 1940 Killed in aerial combat on June 7, 1940
PAULHAN Jean	Adjutant	GC II/4 on February 22, 1940	Wounded in aerial combat on June 9, 1940	7	3
PAULHAN Auguste	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/1	Killed in aerial combat on May 21, 1940	3	-
PEBREL Jean	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/1 on August 25, 1939	Reserve Officer: joined the Group on 25 August 1939. He was demobilised on 28 July 1940.	2	-
PECHAUD Robert	Sergeant	GC II/5 on August 1939
PELISSIER	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/1	Taken prisoner on June 10, 1940	1	-
PELISSIER	Candidate Officer	DAT Chartres
PELLERAY	Captain	ECN II/13
PELLETIER René	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/8		2
PELLETRAU	Sergeant	GC III/3
PENZINI Dominique	Staff-Sergeant	EOR of Chartres on December 1939 GC I/5 on January 24, 1940		9	1
PEPIN René	Commander	GC II/7	Killed in aerial combat on June 15, 1940	2
PERAUD Jean - Etienne	Lieutenant	GC I/1	Jean PERAUD distinguished himself in 1934 by flying a Farman 356 from Paris to Saigon in 6 days and 2 hours, winning the Coupe du Président de la République. He joined the Group on 21 October 1939. On 5 April 1940, he was posted to the Ministry of Air.			Born on 26 June 1911 in Gond-Pontouvre (16 - Charente) Died at Libourne (33 - Gironde) on 23 February 1990
PERDRIZET Maurice - Théodore	Captain	GC II/8 ECN V/13	Maurice PERDRIZET was a student at the Ecole Spéciale Militaire in 1932, before joining the Ecole Militaire et d'Application de l'armée de l'air. He was posted to the 25th Wing in Tunisia in 1937 and took part in the French campaign in 1940 with Escadrille V/13. After the Armistice, he managed to escape from France via Spain in August 1943, and joined AFN and then Great Britain. He took command of GC III/3 in 1945. After the war in 1946, he was posted to the Air General Staff, then to the 60th Transport Wing in 1949. He was appointed Commander of the Ouges-Longvic base in Longvic base in 1953, then the Dijon base in 1954. He was assigned to the Secretary of State for the Air Armed Forces in 1956. He was assigned to Groupement Mixte No. 1 during Operation 700 in the Middle East, and was then appointed Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State for the Air Armed Forces. Maurice PERDRIZET was placed on aircrew leave in 1957 with the rank of Air Brigadier General.			Born on 11 July 1912 in Crest (26 - Drôme). Died at Valence (26 - Drôme) on 2 June 1994
PERONNE Rémy	Lieutenant	GC I/7 GC II/10	Killed in aerial combat on 17 May 1940
PERROLAZ	Captain	ECN V/13
PERSON	Sergeant	GC I/2 from September 25 to the November 16, 1939 Group of Reco.(?)	Joined the Group on September 25, 1939. Left GCI / 2 on November 16 for assignment to a Recognition Group.
PETERS	Staff-Sergeant	ECN V/13	Pilot
PETIT	Adjutant	DAT Salon first of June 1940 GC II/3 on June 10, 1940
PETIT-DE-MIRBECK Hubert	Captain	ECN II/13	Chief of Board. Killed in aerial combat on May 17, 1940
PETITJEAN	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/8	Wounded in aerial combat on May 21, 1940
PETITJEAN-ROGET Albert	Commander	GC II/5 on April 1940		5
PEUTO Jacques	Lieutenant	GC III/2	Killed in aerial combat on May 17, 1940	-	1
PEYREGNE Marcel	Captain	GC I/8	Killed in aerial combat on June 6, 1940	4	1
PEZANT Georges	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/9	Wounded in aerial combat on June 1, 1940
PHENIX Jean	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 31, 1940
PICHON Maurice - Etienne	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/2 on September 17, 1939	Joined the Group on 17 September 1939. Maurice PICHON died in an accident at the controls of a GOELAND Caudron belonging to the Services Civils des Liaisons Aériennes (SCLA): lost in thick fog, the aircraft crashed to the ground. The two crewmen and two passengers were killed.	2	1	Born on 16 February 1913 Died 3 September 1941 at Crémieu (38 - Isère)
PICOT	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/9
PIGEON François	Adjutant	ECN IV/13	Machine-gunner. Wounded in aerial combat on June 2, 1940
PILATRE-JACQUIN François	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/7 GC I/1 on August 13, 1940	Wounded by accident on February 13, 1940 Wounded in aerial combat on May 21, 1940 Leaves GC I / 1 (Armistice Leave) in October 1940		1
PIMONT Roger	Sergeant	GC III/6 on October 21, 1939.
PINCE	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/2 on June 1940	Joined the Group in Juny 1940.
PINOCHIETTI	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/1
PINON	Sergeant	GC I/8 GC III/10
PINSON	Sergeant	GC II/9		2
PISSOTTE Georges - Léon	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/2	Georges Pissotte enlisted voluntarily in 1934. He attended the Chartres and Etampes schools, then the École Militaire de l'Air. In 1939, he was posted to fighter group III/2, and won eight air victories. He was posted to the GC I/3 group in Oran, and took part in the liberation of Corsica. In November 1945, he was sent to Indochina, and in 1947 was posted to the Meknès flying school. In 1950, he was posted to the air defence sector in Ajaccio, before joining the SHAPE (European General Staff) in Fontainebleau in 1953. In 1955, he was appointed commander of air defence zone 901. He was sent to Algeria in April 1958, and was posted to the Aix-en-Provence base in 1959, then to Paris. Georges Pissotte was placed on leave from the Air Force in 1964.	3	1	Born on 6 October 1913 in Pantin (93 - Seine-Saint-Denis) Died on 27 August 1999 in Bordeaux (33 - Gironde)
PIZON René	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/2 GC III/3	Killed by accident on August 28, 1939	3	2
PLANCHARD Henri	Sergeant	GC II/7		2
PLESNAGE	Adjutant	CIC Chartres GC II/8 on April 01, 1940
PLUBEAU Camille - Adrien	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/4 on August 1939	Camille PLUBEAU enlisted in August 1929. He qualified as a pilot at Istres and was posted to the 34th Air Force Regiment at Dugny, then to the 37th in June 1932 in AFN. He was posted to the 3rd squadron at Meknès in 1934, then to air base 112 at Reims in 1936 as part of the GC II/4 group. He took part in the French campaign and was wounded in air combat on 9 June 1940. He embarked for AFN in August 1940 and was posted to the GC I/5 in Rabat and to the GC II/5 in Tunisia in 1943. He joined the Marrakech fighter training school in 1944, then the GC II/9 ‘Auvergne’ in 1944 at La Reghaïa. He returned to France in March 1945 to take command of the training G.A. at Le Bourget in July 1945. Camille PLUBEAU was placed on aircrew leave in 1946 and transferred to the reserves with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.	14	4	Born on 6 January 1910 in Auxelles-Haut (90 - Territoire de Belfort) Died at Antibes (06 - Alpes-Maritimes) on 15 March 1998
PODIN	Sergeant	GC III/7
POILLOUE-DE-SAINT-March Xavier		GC I/6	Killed in aerial combat on June 8, 1940
POINCENOT Pierre	Adjutant	GC II/3		2	1
Poiré	Lieutenant	GC II/8
POLLONO	Adjutant	GC II/2		1	-
POMIER-LAYRARGUES René	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/7	Killed in aerial combat on June 5, 1940	5	1
POMPE	Captain	GC III/1
PONCEL	Lieutenant	GC II/9
PONNEAU Pierre	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/9	Wounded in aerial combat on June 11, 1940	1
PONTEINS Denis	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/7	Wounded in aerial combat on June 5, 1940	4	1
PORODO Emmanuel - Jean	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/8	Emmanuel PORODO joined the École de l'Air at Salon and Chartres in 1937. He was posted to Etampes in 1939 with the GC I/8, with which he took part in the French Campaign. After the Armistice, he joined Jeunesse et Montagne in 1940. He was posted to the AOF in 1942 with the GC I/4 fighter group, then the GC I/2. He joined the Meknès fighter school in 1944 and was then posted to the GC II/3. He moved with this group to Germany before being sent to Indochina in 1947 at Nha Trang. He was posted successively to the Cognac school in 1948, to the 2nd fighter squadron in Dijon in 1949, to the 3rd fighter squadron in Reims in 1951, and finally to air defence zone 901 in Saint-Valéry in 1953. In 1954 he was posted to the equipment programmes office at the armed forces headquarters, and in 1957 was transferred to the Brétigny air experiment centre. He was appointed liaison officer to the general commanding the French forces in Germany in 1961. Emmanuel PORODO retired in 1965 with the rank of Colonel.	1		Born 26 November 1917 in Moelan sur Mer (29 - Finistère) Died in Dijon (21 - Côte d'Or) on 20 January 1994
PORQUET	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/8
PORTALIS Gérard	Captain	GC II/5	Wounded in aerial combat on May 15, 1940	3	2
POSSIEN Henry	Lieutenant	GC II/10		2
POST Georges	Staff-Sergeant	ECN I/13
POTIER Lucien Louis	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 14, 1940	2		Born on 09/02/1907 at Sévry (18 - Cher) Killed on 05/14/1940 at Villers-en-Argonne (51 - Marne)
POUCET René	Adjutant	GC I/55
POUGET		GC II/6
POUPART	Sergeant	GC I/10
POUYADE Pierre - Aimé	Captain	ECN IV/13	Pierre POUYADE studied at the Prytanée Militaire, before entering the École Spéciale Militaire in 1930 and finally the École d'Application de l'Armée de l'Air in 1933. He was posted to the 6th squadron in 1935, to the Reims base in 1936, then in 1939 at the start of the French Campaign to the GMCN II/13 (Groupe Mixte de Chasse de Nuit). He was then Commander of the 4th Squadron of this Group. In January 1940, the GMCN II/13 was split into two squadrons: ECN II/13 and ECN IV/13. Pierre POUYADE took command of the latter. Wounded on board Potez 631 n°192 shot down by Flak on 2nd June 1940. After the Armistice, he was sent to Indochina in February 1941, where he managed to escape in a Potez 25 and join the FAFL in Chungking (China). He joined the FAFL on 1 March 1943 and took command of the Normandie-Niémen group from May 1943 to December 1944. In 1945 he was posted to the Inspectorate General of the de l'Armée de l'Air, before becoming Aiide de Camp to the President of the Republic in 1947. In 1950, he was appointed Military Attaché in Buenos-Aires. On his return to France, he was posted to the Armed Forces Staff, 2nd Bureau, and then to SHAPE in 1953. Pierre POUYADE was placed on leave from the Air Force in 1955.			Born on 25 July 1911 in Cerisiers (89 - Yonne). Died on 5 September 1979 at Bandol (83 - Var)
PRALON Georges	Sergeant	GC III/1	Wounded in aerial combat on May 19, 1940	1	-
PRAYER Gilbert	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/3		1
PRENEZ Robert	Adjutant	GC III/2	Wounded in aerial combat on May 15, 1940	1	-
PREUX Edouard	Sergeant	GC I/5	Wounded in aerial combat on May 10, 1940 Taken prisoner on May 21, 1940
PREVOST Louis Marie	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3	Wounded in aerial combat on June 5, 1940	1
PROVENSAL Luc - Louis	Lieutenant	GC I/2		1	-
PRUDHOMME	Lieutenant	GC III/2
PUGET	Sergeant	GC II/6
PUISTIENNE Jean - Charles	Captain	GC III/4	Jean PUISTIENNE, a young student, was mobilised in 1915 and posted to the 121st Infantry Regiment, then to the 105th; seriously wounded in the face on the Somme in 1916, he asked to join the air force in 1917. He obtained his pilot's licence and joined the 155th Squadron, where he fought until the Armistice on 11 November 1918, but his flying career came to a premature end when he and four other pilots performed acrobatics over the crowds celebrating the victory, and one of the Spads crashed to the ground. The 5 pilots were discharged from the Air Force; Jean PUISTIENNE was however to be found commanding the ERC 571 squadron stationed at Casablanca until May 1940, when this unit, along with ERC 573, formed GC III/4. Captain Jean PUISTIENNE took command of the 6th Squadron.. Source Mr Yann PROUILLET			Born on 29 October 1896 in Vichy (03 - Allier) Died at Lagardelle-sur-Lèze (31 - Haute-Garonne) on 23 January 1983
PUITOUVEAU	Captain	GC I/8