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Name
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Rank
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Unit
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Post
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Informations
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Civil-statut
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Photo
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Indiv. Card
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Citations
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| ABAUZIT
Ferdinand - Louis |
Captain
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Born in Nîmes
(30 - Gard) on 5 August 1906
Died August 3rd 1990 at Nîmes |
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| ABELE |
Staff-Sergeant
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Pilot
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At
the beginning of 1940, the staff-sergeant ABELE took part
in the experimentation of the Amiot 354 at Marignane.
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| ADAMOWITZ |
Staff-sergeant
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Leaves GBA
Group I/54 in mid-November 1939 |
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| ADDES
André |
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Machine-Gunner
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| ADER |
Commander
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| AJAM
Raymond - Louis |
Staff-Sergeant
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Pilot
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Wounded on May 20, 1940, when his aircraft, the LeO 451 No114
was hit by the Flak.
- Killed on June 8, 1940 during a night mission. His aircraft,
the LeO 451 No3006, hit by flak, lost its way and fell into
the sea off Les Sables-d'Olonne. |
Born
January 24, 1916 in Paris (75)
Killed on June 7, 1940 at Les Sables d'Olonne (85 - Vendée) |
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| ALEXANDRE
Jean |
Staff-Sergeant
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Pilot
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On June 13,
1940, the LéO 451 No. 275, severely damaged by the Flak,
was destroyed on landing. The crew is unscathed. |
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| ALSUMARD
Jean - Hubert |
Adjutant
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On June 17,
1940, during the movement of the group to North Africa, the
Glenn Martin 167F No.209 was accidentally destroyed on landing
on the ground of Oran. The crew is killed. |
Born on 3 November
1913 at Saubrigues (40 - Landes)
Killed on 17 June 1940 at Saint-Leu (Algeria) |
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| ALLAIN
Maurice - Georges |
Sergeant
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Machine-gunner
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Maurice ALLAIN
was called up to Evreux and posted to 1/62 in Casablanca in
1937. Awarded a machine-gunner's certificate in 1939, he took
part in the French campaign and operations in Sicily in June
1940. He was placed on Armistice leave, then recalled in 1943
to the GB 1/62 and then to the GB 11/23. He was admitted to
the Air Force in May 1945, and was successively
He was posted to the 40th Wing in 1947, the 60th Air Transport
and Liaison Wing in 1948 and the GT 11/61 in 1950.
Maurice ALLAIN was then posted to the 61st Transport Wing in
Indochina in
1954 and then to AFN in 1955. He was appointed intelligence
and flight safety officer in 1957 before being posted to the
GMMTA (Groupement des moyens militaires de transport aérien)
headquarters in 1960.
He was placed on aircrew leave in 1962. |
Born on 12
September 1916 in Port-Saint-Pierre (27 - Eure)
Died 17 April 1996 in Antony (92 - Hauts de Seine) |
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| ALLAIRE
Robert - Henri |
Chief
Warrant Officer
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Pilot
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The LéO 451 No
56 was shot down by the Chase on May 31, 1940. The crew was
killed.
Posthumous commendation
with the attribution of the Cross of War with Palm.
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Born April
21, 1909 at Sèvres (92 - Hauts-de-Seine)
Killed May 31, 1940 at Le Plessier-Rozainvilliers (80 - Somme) |
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| ANCEL |
Lieutenant
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Pilot
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Breguet 693
No66 was badly damaged by the Flak on May 25, 1940. Lieutenant
ANCEL was unharmed. |
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| ANCELIN |
Sergeant
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Pilot
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- The Breguet
693 No. 44 severely hit by Me109 30 May 30, 1940, will be destroyed.The
crew is unscathed.
- On June 7, 1940, the Breguet 693 Nb 77 severely damaged by
the flak, crashes landing on return on his land. The crew is
unscathed.
- On June 12, 1940, Breguet 693 No. 68 was shot down by the
Flak on June 12, 1940. Sergeant ANCELIN is unharmed. |
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| ANGE |
Staff-Sergeant
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Machine-Gunner
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Wounded
in aerial combat on June 13, 1940 |
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| ANGLADE
Jean - Henri |
Chief-Warrant-Officer
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Machine-Gunner
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| ANKAOUA
Robert |
Sergeant
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Radio
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On May 14,
1940, his aircraft was shot down by the Flak. Sergeant ANKAOUA
parachutes and will be taken prisoner when arriving on the ground. |
Born in Algiers
on 3 November 1915
Died at Enghien-les-Bains (95 - Val d'Oise) on 26 September
2015 |
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| ANNON |
Sergeant
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Chief
of Board
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| ANTOINE
Louis - François |
Lieutenant
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GB
II/35
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Crew
Chief
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On June 16,
1940, the Breguet 691 No49 crashes accidentally on landing during
a trip: the crew is killed. |
Born on 15
February at Oran (Algeria)
Killed in an air crash on 16 June 1940 at Chateauroux (36 -
Indre) |
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| AOUACH
Georges |
Lieutenant
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Pilot
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On October 6, 1939, returning
from a reconnaissance mission over Germany, LéO 451
No6 was shot down by two German fighters. Georges AOUACH,
wounded, managed to land his burning aircraft near Euskirchen.
Lieutenant Georges Aouach is taken prisoner.
Initially interned at Oflag IV-D in Elsterhorst, where he
was treated, he was transferred to the Dulay Luft camp.
On March 29, 1942, along with some twenty other officers,
he managed to escape through a tunnel dug beneath the camp.
Georges Aouach managed to reach Marseille, in the Zone Libre,
where he was reunited with his wife. Together, they headed
for Tunisia, then Algeria after the Allied landings in North
Africa in November 1942.
Georges AOUACH joins the Free French Air Force, serving as
a pilot in a Bombardment Group, before joining the GB II/20
"Bretagne". He took part in the fighting in Italy,
supported the American offensive on the Saar in 1945, and
took part in the reduction of the Royan pockets.
In September 1945, he was assigned to General Paul GERARDOT's
staff. He was none other than the Chief Flight Officer of
Léo451 n°6, on board which he crashed in Germany
on October 6, 1939.
With the war over, Georges
AOUACH continued his career as a pilot with theGT 3/15 Maine
before retiring around 1950 with the rank of Colonel.
Returning to civilian life, he became Sales Director of Thomson-France.
On August 5, 1971, while driving to Spain with his wife, he
was involved in a road accident near Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher,
and ended up in the path of an oncoming truck: they were both
killed in the accident..
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Born
on May 27, 1909
Killed August 5, 1971 near Saint-Agnan-sur-Cher (41 - Loire
et Cher) |
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| ARACHEQUESNE
Maurice - Daniel |
Sergeant
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Machine
Gunner
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LéO
451 No 38, shot down by fighters, crashed in flames and exploded
on 6 June 1940. The crew was killed. The body of Maurice ARACHEQUESNE
was found buried next to the wreckage. |
Born on 11
November 1916 in Paris (75)
Killed on 6 June 1940 at Mézières en Santerre
(80 - Somme) |
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| ARAUD
Albert |
Lieutenant
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Cder
1st Sqn.
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Lieutenant
ARAUD joined the Free French Forces, fighting with the Guyenne
Group equipped with Halifax four-engine planes. |
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| ARCHAUX
Jean-Jacques |
Chief-Warrant
Officer
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Pilot
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Jean Archaux
was killed on 24 June 1943 in Tunis while flying LéO
451 n°323. He wanted to make a low pass over the city of
Tunis to greet his family, as was his custom, but when he went
on the throttle, his aircraft hit a building and crashed. All
10 crew members and three civilians were killed. |
Born on 29
June 1911 in Meaux (77 - Seine et Marne)
Killed on 24 June 1943 in Tunis (Tunisia) |
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| ARIBAUD
Joseph |
Lieutenant-Colonel
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Bombardment
Group nb 10
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Commander
of Group
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| ARMANET |
Sergeant
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Machine
Gunner
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On June 13, 1940, Amiot
354 No7 was destroyed following a landing in the countryside
after returning from a bombing mission. Sergeant ARMANET is
unharmed
Sergeant ARMANET later
joined the Free French Air Force and fought with the GBM 2/52,
equipped with twin-engine B26 Marauder bombers.
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| ARNULPHY
Albert - Louis |
Chief
Warrant Officer
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Machine
Gunner
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The Douglas
DB7 No41 is shot down by Fighters on June 10, 1940: the crew
is killed. |
Born on 28
February 1909 at Chateauneuf sur Sarthe (49 - Maine et Loire)
Killed on 10 June 1940 at Tagnon (08 - Ardennes) |
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| ARTOLA |
Lieutenant
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GB
II/35
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Machine
Gunner
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The Breguet
691 No 39 is shot down on May 18, 1940 by 10 Me109. The crew,
unharmed is made prisoner |
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| ASTRE Robert
- Antoine |
Chief-Warrant-Officer
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Chief
of Board
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Born in Peyriac-de-Mer
(11 - Aude) on 24 March 1907
Died at Chalon-sur-Saône (71 - Saône et Loire) on
30 June 1999 |
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| ASTRUC
Roger |
Sergeant
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Machine
Gunner
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Roger
ASTRUC studied at the Lycée CONDORCET in Paris, where
he passed the Sciences-Languages Baccalauréat and continued
to draw. He was hired as an industrial draughtsman at Avions
Marcel BLOCH, then in the design office of the aircraft manufacturer
DEWOITINE in Courbevoie, where he worked from the end of the
1930s until the outbreak of the war and during the Occupation.
In early November 1938, he did his military service in Chartres,
where he was posted as a draughtsman to the Major Commandant.
He then joined the EOR (Ecole Officier de Réserve) platoon
at Dugny air base. In April 1939, he entered the Cazaux Advanced
Training School, where he was certified as Sergeant Machine
Gunner on 13th July 1939: Certificate No. 2077 issued on 6th
November 1939.
. He briefly joined
the Dugny base in August 1939 before being posted to the
GB II/34 - 4th Squadron based at Poix (Somme). Roger flew
day and night bombing missions on Amiot 143s from the Dijon
and Metz areas, among others, before moving to Meknes Air
Base in Morocco when the Group withdrew. In August 1940,
Roger Astruc joined the GB I/31 2nd Escadrille at Istres
Air Base. Finally, he was posted to the GR I/14 based at
Perpignan-Llabanère Air Base until his demobilisation
in March 1941.
In 1943, he joined the ‘Ceux de la Libération-Vengeance’
resistance network; arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 in Paris
for his Jewish-sounding name, he was interned for 4 months
in Fresnes prison, where he was released after persistent
efforts by his wife and the intervention of H. Carol, Director
of the Boulogne plant of Avions Marcel DASSAULT, and Jeff
ROOS, then Chairman of INDAERO, thus narrowly escaping deportation.
He is mentioned in the Order of the Air Force (Croix de
Guerre with a palm).
After the war, Roger worked in the aeronautical industry
until his retirement, starting with S.N.C.A.S.O. (Société
Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest)
after the company was successively called Sud-Aviation,
then S.N.I.A.S. (Société Nationale de l'Industrie
Aéronautique et Spatiale) and finally Aérospatiale.
Roger was a proud participant in the Concorde adventure
at the end of the 60s. He was in charge of a group responsible
for designing and producing advertising.
He retired in 1978 and returned with his wife ‘au Pays’
to Espira-de-l'Agly. In the village he made friends with
the Catalan poet Joan CAYROL, with whom he planned to start
drawing again to illustrate his poems, but CAYROL died too
soon.
Source Mr J.C. ASTRUC: see full details in the ‘Stories’
section below.
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Born
on 1st June 1918
in Corneilla-De-La-Rivière (66 - Pyrénées-Orientales)
Died on 6th April 2000 in Espira-de-L'Agly
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| AUBERT
Maurice - Henri |
Sergeant
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Canoner
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Killed
on October 6, 1939 in air combat. His aircraft, the LeO 451
No6, hit by the fight, managed to land, but Sergeant AUBERT,
hit in the legs, died of his wounds, |
Born
May 29, 1914 in Issoudun (36 - Indre)
Killed on October 6, 1939 in a field hospital) |
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| AUBOURG
Pierre - Maurice |
Staff-Sergeant
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Pilot
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Born on 25
April 1912 in Chalette-Sur-Loing (45 - Loiret)
Died in Paris (75) on 3 January 2006 |
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| AUBRY |
Lieutenant
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Cder
1st Sqn.
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| AUDOIN |
Commander
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Cder
of Group
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| AUDOUX
Abel - Louis |
Master-Corporal
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Machine
Gunner
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Assigned to the group
on 1 September 1938, Abel AUDOUX was appointed master corporal
on February 1st, 1939. Holder of the Aircraft Machine Gunner's
Patent No3197 (Approved on September 9, 1939).
On September 9, 1939,
the Bloch 200 No132, badly damaged by the German fight,
has to make a landing in enemy territory. Staff Sergeant
AUDOUX, wounded, is taken prisoner.
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Born
September 25, 1916 in Sillards (86 - Vienne)
Died February 3rd 2000 at Sillars |
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| AUDREN Hector |
Sergeant
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Radio
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After the Armistice,
Hector AUDREN joined the Amarante Resistance as a radio operator.
He was arrested twice by the French police, but managed to escape.
He was finally arrested by the Gestapo in Le Mans, a few days
before the town was liberated.
Hector AUDREN was deported and arrived at the Neuengamme camp
on 31 July 1944. He was killed on 12 April 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen
camp, three days before the camp was liberated... |
Born 8 June
1917 in Pont-Croix (29 - Finistère)
Killed on 12 April 1945 in Bergen-Belsen (Germany) |
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| AUDUIRE |
Captain
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| AUGE
Paul |
Adjutant
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Machine
Gunner
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The Leo 451
No37 was shot down by Me109 on May 20, 1940. The crew was killed. |
Born on 13
January 1904 in Paris (75)
Killed on 21 May 1940 at Origny-Sainte-Benoite (02 -Aisne) |
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| AVENARD |
Lieutenant
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Pilot
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