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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.

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Name	Rank	Unit	Informations	Vict. Sures	Vict. Prob.	Civil-statut	Photo	Indiv Card	Citations
VAGNOT	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/6 (GCIII/9 : killed on July 12, 1941)
VALENTIN Georges	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/7		8	2
VALLIERE	Sergeant	GC III/1		-	1
VANDENDORPE René - Edmond	Sub-Lieutenant	Squadron I/595	René VANDENDORPE enlisted voluntarily in 1913 and joined the 8th engineer regiment, then the 37th infantry battalion. He joined the air force in early 1917 and was trained at the Juvisy, Avord and Pau schools. He was posted to 152 squadron, then moved to the 34th aviation regiment in June 1920. He was posted to Indochina in June 1922. Struck off the rolls in October 1926, he retired to Tonkin, but re-enlisted in 1931 with the 4th colonial artillery regiment until 1934. He was mobilised in January 1940 to squadron I/595 at Bach-Mai. René VANDERDORPE was transferred to the reserves in 1946.			Born 23 July 1895 in Hanoi (Indochina). Died on 7 December 1984.
VANIER	Sub-Lieutenant	DAT TOURS on May 12, 1940 GC I/55
VANTILLARD Roger	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/6	Wounded on aerial combat on 25 May 1940	1	1
VANTILLARD	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/10	Muté au CRAS on December 3, 1939
VENIEL Victor - Louis	Captain	GC II/1	Victor VENIEL was called up from 1924 to 1926 and transferred to the reserve corps. He received his pilot's licence in August 1932. He was recalled to active service in 1937 and posted to the Iere Escadre Aérienne d'Étampes. He took command of of the 3rd squadron of the II/1 fighter group in 1938 and took part in the the French campaign with his group. Victor VENIEL was placed on Armistice leave in August 1940. He joined the Brutus network in 1942 and the Mithridate network in 1943. He escaped from France in November 1943 and was taken prisoner in Spain in 1944. He joined London in March 1944 and became Head of Military Intelligence at the BCRA from March 1944 to November 1945. In 1946, he was assigned to the Le Bourget office before being appointed head of the Air Force personnel selection and orientation service in 1947. Victor VENIEL retired in 1948.	1	-	Born 31 March 1902, Berck (62 - Pas-de-Calais) Died at Nans-Les-Pins (83 - Var) on 1 December 1995.
VERDIER	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/6	Wounded on aerial combat on May 16, 1940
VERNAELDE	Adjutant	GC II/6
VEROTS Auguste	Adjutant	GC I/1	Originally an aviation mechanic, Auguste VEROTS joined the Morane flying school in 1935. He was posted to GC I/1 in 1936.	1	1	Born on 5 November 1910 in Saint-Etienne (42 - Loire) Died at Puy en Velay (43 - Haute-Loire) on 22 May 2000
VERRIER Marcel	Sergeant	DAT TOURS on May 12, 1940
VERRY Pierre	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/4	Wounded on aerial combat on May 11, 1940	2	1
VEYRUNES	Adjutant	GC II/8			1
VIARIS-DE_LESEGNO	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/8	Taken prisoner on May 23, 1940
VIAU	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/3	Wounded by accident on March 24, 1940
VIDAL Maurice - Marie	Captain	GC I/2	Killed on aerial combat on April 7, 1940			Born in Saumur (49 - Maine et Loire) on 05 April 1906 Died 07 April 1940 at Saverne (67 - Bas-Rhin)
VIE	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/3		1
Vié Yves	Lieutenant	GC II/6 GC III/9 on December 28, 1940	Wounded on aerial combat on June 8, 1940
VIGUIER Armand - Théodore	Commander	GC III/9 GC I/4 on June 21, 1940	Armand VIGUIER joined the 10th Dragoon Regiment in 1913. He was seconded to the air force and qualified as a pilot in 1915. From 1917 to 1919, he was posted to the VB 107, SPA 150, SPA 157 and SPA 84 squadrons. He joined the 2nd fighter aviation regiment in 1920. He was appointed Commander of the Toul depot in 1923. He was posted successively to various fighter units from 1928 to 1936. He took command of regional air group 562 in Lyon in 1937, before being transferred to fighter group GC III/9. He joined GC I/4 on 21 June 1940 aboard Curtiss H75 no. 160. Armand VIGUIER retired in 1940. BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Les mémoires d'un aéroplane Voisin. 1908-1918, Lyon : 1962. - Si le Musée de l'Air nous était conté. Lyon : 1968.			Born on 1 January 1893 in Pechaudier (81 - Tarn). Died at Mably (42 - Loire) on 22 December 1985
VILLACEQUE Pierre	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/5 on August 1939	Wounded on aerial combat on May 12, 1940	5	2
VILLEMIN Alphonse	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/6	Wounded on aerial combat on May 25, 1940
VILLEY Pierre	Adjutant	GC II/4 on August 1939	Killed on aerial combat on May 25, 1940	5	1
VINCHON Jacques Joseph	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/3	Killed on aerial combat on le June 3, 1940	2		Born on 15/05/1907 at Monceau-sur-Oise (02 - Aisne) Killed on the 03/06/1940 at Charmentray (77 - Seine et Marne)
VINCOTTE Max - Pierre	Lieutenant	GC II/4 on August 1939	Max VINCOTTE entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1934. He attended the Ecole militaire et d'application de l'armée de l'Air in Versailles before being posted to the GC II/4 in Reims in 1937. He took part in the French campaign with this group, before being withdrawn to AFN at the Armistice. He was posted to the GC I/5 in Rabat in September 1940. Max VINCOTTE remained loyal to Marshal Pétain and stayed in Morocco until the American landings. After that, he took command of the GC III/3 ‘Ardennes’ group in November 1943 and took part in the Provence landings in 1944. He was appointed second-in-command of the 4th Fighter Wing in 1945 and was posted to the CEAM at Mont-de-Marsan in 1947. Max VINCOTTE resigned from the active army in 1948 and served numerous periods in the reserve until 1972.	2	2	Born on 11 March 1913 in Ermont (95 - Val d'Oise). Died in Paris (75) on 5 November 1994.
VIOLET Georges	Captain	GC I/1 GC I/2	Before the war, Captain VIOLET was Commandant of the Ecole de Perfectionnement à la Chasse in Dijon. He joined the GC III/7 on 15 September 1939, replacing Commandant Champ-De-Pas, and became Deputy Commandant of the Group. He in turn left the Group on 31 March 1940 to join GC I/1. In July 1941 he joined the GC I/2. He died accidentally on 18 August 1943 near Meknes, in a collision with another D520 of the GC I/2.			Born on 02 January 1907 at Etoile (26 - Drôme) Killed on 18 August 1943 at Meknès (Morocco)
VIOSSAT Pierre	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/9	Killed by accident on March 16, 1940
VITTINI François	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/8 GC III/2	Wounded on aerial combat on May 17, 1940
VIVES	Sergeant	GC II/9
VOIRIN Maurcie	Adjutant	ECN I/13	Machine-Gunner
VOYER Pierre	Adjutant	GC III/2		1	-
VUILLEMayN Léon	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/5		9	5
WARNIER François - Jules	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/5	François WARNIER did his military service in the French Air Force in 1934. He qualified as a pilot at the Ecole d'Istres. He re-enlisted in 1935 at Reims and was posted to the GC I/5 fighter group, with which he took part in the French campaign. François WARNIER was emobilised in 1940. He served periods in the reserves until 1959.	8	2	Born 8 January 1913, Reims (51 - Marne) Died 5 December 2005, Reims
WATTINE	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/10
WEBER René	Sergeant	GC I/2	After the Armistice, René WEBER fought in the Free French Air Force with GC I/4 Navarre.	2	-
WEIS André	Lieutenant	DAT Chateaudun GC I/4	Killed on aerial combat on June 6, 1940	3		Born on 16/03/1941 at Angoulème (16 - Charente) Killed on the 06/06/1940 at Amiens (80 - Somme)
WETZEL	Adjutant	GC II/10 GC I/8
WILLIAME Robert - Eugène	Captain	GC I/2 on October 1, 1939	Robert Williame entered the Saint-Cyr Military School in 1930. In 1932, he joined the French Air Force with the rank of Second Lieutenant, and was commissioned as a Military Pilot at Avord in 1933. He joined the GC I/2 Group on 1 October 1934. In July 1940, he contracted scarlet fever and was forced to take a rest. He returned to service in September, but as the GC I/2 Group had been disbanded in August 1940, he was posted to the GC II/9, which he joined on 2 October 1940. He took command of the 6th Squadron of GC III/9. He was killed by accident on 31 October 1940 during a simulated air battle on board a MB152 Bloch: he was "confronting" Captain TRICAUD at the time, but his aircraft stalled at low altitude, probably as a result of Captain WILLIAME feeling unwell, still weakened by his illness.	8	1	Born February 24th 1911 at Saint-Martin-Boulogne (62 - Pas de Calais) Died at Salon-en-Provence (13 - Bouches-du-Rhône) on 31/10/1940
WINGLERT	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/10	Transfered to the CRAS on December 3, 1939.
WURTZ Paul	Staff-Sergeant	ECMJ I/16
ZINNICKER Pierre	Sergeant	GC I/2 on October 18, 1939 GC III/2 on November 1939	Joined the Group on 18 October 1939 He joined the GC III/2 and was shot down in aerial combat on 8 June 1940: alone on board his Curtiss H75, he attacked a German formation of around thirty Bombers escorted by around fifteen Chasseurs... The battle was too unequal and the aircraft went down in flames.	5	1	Born in 1919 BOSSANCOURT (10 - Aube) Killed on 8 June 1940