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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
CABARET Charles	Lieutenant	DAT Salon on May 28, 1940 GC I/3 on June 5, 1940		1
CAEL	Captain	GC II/1
CAHEN Gontrand	Sergeant	GC III/7	Assigned to GC III/7 on 29 August 1939. Killed by accident on January 3, 1940;His Morane 406No76 caught fire in flight as he was preparing to land.
CALMEL François	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 12, 1940
CALMON Robert - Georges	Captain	GC I/1 GC I/8 on May 16, 1940				Born in Paris (75) on 24 March 1910 Died 21 November 1979 at Créteil (94 - Val de Marne)
CAMEL	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/1		1	-
CAMPANA	Sub-Lieutenant	CIC Cazaux DAT Tours on May 12, 1940 GC I/55
CANCIEL	Lieutenant	GC I/8
CANDESSUS	Lieutenant	DAT Bordeaux on May 20,1940 GC I/55
CANEL Jean	Captain	GC I/7 GC II/9	Wounded in aerial combat on June 3, 1940		1
CAPDEVILLE André	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/6 on March 6, 1940
CARBON	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/10
CARBON Yves	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/10		2	3
CARCOPINO	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/6		1
CARLETTI Jacques	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/10	Killed in aerial combat on May 18, 1940
CARRERE Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/4 on August 1939
CARRIER André Jean	Adjutant	GC I/6 - GC I/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 14, 1940			Born on 01/12/1910 at Riom (63 - Puy-De-Dôme) Killed on the 14/05/1940 at Frénois (21 - Côte d'Or)
CARTIER Raymond	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/4	Passed in AFN on June 20, 1940 with the H75 n ° 226	1
CASENOBE Antoine	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/4 on May 15, 1939 GC I/5 on August 1940		7	2
CASTANIER Pierre	Commander	GC III/6 on December 07, 1939	Killed in aerial combat on May 24, 1940
CASTEL Henri	Adjutant	GC I/8	Wounded in aerial combat on May 27, 1940	1
CASTILLON Jean	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/1
CATOIS Georges	Sergeant	GC II/7	Wounded by accident on June 24, 1940	1	1
CAUSSAT Gérard	Sergeant	GC I/3	Wounded in aerial combat on May 21, 1940	1
CAUSSE	Sergeant	GC I/10
CAVAROZ Jean - Georges	Sub-Lieutenant	CIC of Chartres GC III/6 on March 6, 1940	Jean CAVAROZ joined the French Air Force in 1937, first at the Avord school and then at Etampes. He transferred to the Chartres CIC before being posted to the GC III/6 on 6 March 1940. He was seriously wounded on 21 May 1940 and withdrew with his group to North Africa. He was posted to the Kasba Tadla flying school, then to Marrakech, before taking part in operations over Corsica and Italy as part of the ‘Navarre’ group. In 1945, he was posted to the GC II/9 fighter group at La Reghaïa, and in 1946 to Algiers. He was sent to Indochina at Nha Trang from April 1948 to January 1949, before being posted to the GC I/4 and then GC I/9 fighter groups at Sidi Ahmed in Tunisia in 1950. He spent a second spell in Indochina at Tourane from December 1950 to April 1952. He was posted to SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) from 1952 to 1957, at Luxeuil with the 11th air brigade, then back to SHAPE in 1959. He was appointed commander of the Reghaïa base (Algeria) in 1963. Jean CAVAROZ was placed on aircrew leave in 1969 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.	1 on MS406		Born on 12 May 1918 in Aix-les-Bains (73 - Savoie). Died in Paris (75) on 16 November 2009
CAZAC	Sergeant	DAT Chateaudun
CAZADE Raymond	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/1		6	-
CAZANEUVE Jacques	Sergeant	GC III/3	Wounded in aerial combat on June 5, 1940	1
CHABERT Jean	Adjutant	GC I/2	Machine-Gunner	-	1
CHABERT Emile	Chief Warrant Officer	ECN III/13	Killed in aerial combat on May 17, 1940
CHABROL	Sergeant	GC III/9
CHAINAT André	Captain	GC III/6
CHALLE	Commander	GC I/8
CHALLE Bernard Georges	Captain	GC I/3		5	2	Born on 16/10/1906 at Commercy (55 - Meuse) Died on 12/01/1977
CHALLE René	Lieutenant	GC III/7	Assigned to GC III/7 on 5 June 1939 from the Hunting School of Romilly. Injured in aerial combat May 15, 1940	1	1
CHAMBON Pierre	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/2	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 13, 1940	2	1
CHAMBRIAS	Chief Warrant Officer	ECN IV/13
CHAPOUR	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/9 GC I/1 on August 26, 1940
CHAPUY Edmond	Lieutenant	GC I/4 on May 26, 1940
CHARDONNET André	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/6
CHARLATTE Guy	Sergeant	ECN III/13	Machine-gunner
CHARREIRE	Lieutenant	GC I/9
CHARVET	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/8
CHAUSSE André	Sergeant	GC I/5 on June 20, 1940
CHAVARROT Charles	Sergeant	GC I/4
CHAVET René	Adjutant	GC III/7	Killed in aerial combat on March 31, 1940
CHENELOT Philippe	Sergeant	GC II/1	Killed in aerial combat on June 6, 1940	1	-	Born on September 09, 1914 at Valentigney Died on June 6, 1940
CHESNAIS Charles	Lieutenant	GC II/9		7
CHEVALLIER	Captain	GC III/9
CHEVILLARD	Sergeant	GC II/6
CHEVILLAUD-FABRE	Lieutenant	GC II/6		1	3
CHIAVARINI	Captain	GC III/3	Killed by accident on August 28, 1939
CHOULET Henri	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/8	Killed in aerial combat on May 16, 1940
CLAIREAUX Robert	Sergeant	GC III/3	Wounded by accident on August 28, 1939 Wounded in aerial combat on June 13, 1940
CLAUDE Pierre	Captain	GC II/4 on May 15, 1939	Killed in aerial combat on September 25, 1939	1
CLAUSSE Raymond	Captain	GC II/3	Raymond CLAUSSE attended the Saint-Cyr special military school in 1931, then the Air Force military and training school. In 1935 he was posted to GC II/3, 3rd Wing, Dijon. He took part in the French campaign and withdrew with his group to Algeria in 1940. In 1943 he was posted to the Meknès fighter school, and in 1944 to the GC III/6, with which he took part in the German campaign. He was posted to the Air Command in Tunisia in 1946, then sent to Indochina in 1949 as Chief of Staff to the Air Command General. He was appointed commander of the Tours base in 1951, then transferred to the air defence command in Versailles in 1956. He was appointed first deputy chief of staff in 1958, commander of tactical air group 2 and then commander of the air force's light aviation in 1961. Raymond CLAUSSE was placed on aircrew leave in 1962 with the rank of Air Brigadier General.	5	4	Born on 27 February 1913 in Villers-le-Chèvre (54 - Meurthe-et-Moselle). Died in Antibes (06 - Alpes-Maritimes) on 25 May 2003
CLAVEL	Commander	DAT Tours GC I/55
CLERC Joseph	Adjutant	GC II/8			1
CLIQUOT DE MENTQUE Gérard	Commander	GC II/7	Killed in aerial combat on May 10, 1940
CLOSTRES Daniel	Lieutenant	GC III/3		1
COADER Louis - Julie	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/1	Killed in aerial combat on 20 May 1940: hit during a fight with 3 ME110s, he jumped too late by parachute and crashed to the ground.	2	2	Born in Paris (75) on 29 August 1913 Killed on 20 May 1940 at Senlis (60 - Oise)
COADOU Marcel	Commander	GC I/2	Major COADOU, World War I ace was reinstated in the Air Force in December 1937, at the age of 40 and joined the GC I/2 as Deputy Commander. In 1931, he created the first flying club of Brittany on the St-Michel en Grèves, which is now the ACCG of LANNION, street of Commandant COADOU. On September 13, 1937, he was decorated, on the airfield of St Michel en Grève, with the order of Commander of the Legion of Honour. After the war, Marcel COADOU and his wife, Mrs Sabine COADOU became instructor pilots at the Aero Club of Frejus-St-Raphael. Marcel COADOU was also an inventor, with notably a double fuel supply system that allowed him to fly on his back or the installation of a machine gun borrowed from the armoury, above the wing of his Caudron G3 to double the firepower. After the First World War, his inventiveness didn't stop there: he made many inventions including cars (Aerolythe, Vélolythe,...). A street in Lannion and a square in Saint-Raphael bear his name, as well as a stele in Fréjus (Rue des Batteries). Source Mrs COADOU Michelle - Daughter of Commandant COADOU			Born February 7, 1897 in Saint Brieuc (22 - Côtes d'Amor) Died on 22 October 1985
COCCALOTTO	Lieutenant	GC I/8
CODET Marcel	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/3		5	3
COHARD	Sergeant	GC I/10 GC III/5
COHEN	Sergeant	GC II/7
COIRAL Albert	Captain	GC II/1	Killed in aerial combat on May 14, 1940	1	-	Born on April 10, 1909 Died on May 14, 1940
COISNEAU Louis	Sergeant	GC II/4 on August 1939		1
COLIN	Commander	GC I/8
COLLART Raymond	Sergeant	CIC Chartres GC I/4 on May 1, 1940	Assigned to GC I / 4 on May 1st, 1940. Passed in AFN on June 18th, 1940 with the H75 n ° 258. He later joined the French Forces of the Interior - He was arrested and deported to Germany where he died on 20/02/1945	3	1	Born on 29/05/1919 in Poitiers (86 - vienne) Killed on 20/02/1945 in Prochym Ocdemhut -Germany
COLLINOT Jean	Staff-Sergeant	ECN III/13	Killed by mistake (Bloch 152) on May 22, 1940
COLOMES Lucien	Sergeant	GC II/9		1	1
COLONGE Georges	Lieutenant	GC III/6	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 24, 1940
COMBEBIAS	Candidate Officer	GC III/9
COMBETTE Antonin	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/3	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 15, 1940	3
COMTE	Captain	ECN III/13
COMTE Robert	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/3
CONDEMINE Jean	Adjutant	Patrol of Avord
CONTE	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/6	Wounded in aerial combat on May 18, 1940
CORBEAU	Captain	GC I/7	Killed by accident on April 5, 1940
CORDIER Bernard	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/4 on March 1940,		3
CORMOULS Henri	Lieutenant	ECMJ I/16
CORNIGLION-MOLINIER Edouard	Captain	GC III/2		4	1
CORRIN Daniel	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/8		4
COSTEY Paul	Lieutenant	GC III/7	Assigned to GC III/7 on 15 October 1939 on probation from GC I/7. Killed in aerial combat May 15, 1940		1
COTE	Captain	GC III/9 on August 27, 1940
COTTIN	Lieutenant	GC III/4 GC I/7
COUBE Raymond - François	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/2	He later joined the GC II/1 and was killed in air combat on April 21, 1941			Born February 04,1909 at Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (54 Meurthe et Moselle) Died April 21, 1941 at Cannet des Maures (83 - Var)
COUDERC	Sergeant	GC I/2 to September 1939 to March 27, 1940	Joined the Group at the end of September 1939: Potez 631 pilot. Moved on March 27, 1940.
COUDOUX Louis	Chief-Warrant-Officer
COUDRAY	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/7
COUFFON André	Adjutant	GC II/6		2
COUILLAUD Joseph	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/10	Wounded in aerial combat on May 14, 1940
COUILLENS Roger	Lieutenant	GC II/7	Killed in aerial combat on May 10, 1940	1	1
COURTEVILLE Edouard	Sergeant	GC II/9		1	1
COUTAUD Germain - Yves	Captain	GC I/1	A former Polytechnique student, he joined the GC I/1 in 1936. He left the GC I/1 on 3 August 1940 for the Staff of the Secretariat for Aviation. After the war, he wrote several books, including "La navigation Aérienne" (1953) and "Le pilotage des Avions modernes" (1957).	6	2	Born 16 July 1911 in Ysuf (Algeria) Died at Saumur (49 - Maine et Loire) on 8 October 2001
CREMIEUX Pierre	Chief Warrant Officer	GC III/1		2	-
CREMONT Louis	Commander	GC III/7	Group Commander. A pilot during the First World War, he was "reserve officer in active service" after joining the Air Force in 1937. In 1939, he was 43 years old.
CREPIN	Candidate Officer	GC III/9 ECN V/13
CRESSATY	Lieutenant	GC I/4	Passed in AFN on June 20, 1940 with H75 Nb 270
CRESSET	Adjutant	GC II/7	Killed by accident on September 08, 1939
CREUZET Guy	Staff-Sergeant	ECMJ I/16
CROQ Jean	Adjutant	GC II/1		2	-
CRUCHANT Robert	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/4 on August 1939	Wounded in aerial combat on April 20, 1940	2	1
CUCUMEL Joannes	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/4 GC II/9 on May 16, 1940	Leaves GC I / 4 May 16, 1940 for GC II / 9 He was killed by accident on 28/08/1942.	9	1	Born on the 01/06/1915 at Belley (01 - Ain) Killed on 28/08/1942 at Brive-la-Gaillarde (19 - Corrèze)
CUFFAUT Léon - Gustave	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/6 on September 25, 1939 CIC Chartres DAT Chartres	Léon CUFFAUT enlisted voluntarily in 1930 and was posted to the 2nd African Aviation Group. of Africa. He qualified as a pilot in 1933 and was posted to Group IV/25 in Tunisia in 1936. After attending the Versailles Air School in 1937, he was posted to the GC I/3 in 1938 and then to the GC II/6 on 25th September 1939. He moved to the GC II/3 in AFN and campaigned in Syria and Tunisia in 1941-1942. In September 1943, he was posted to the USSR with the ‘Normandie’ group. In 1945, he was posted to the office of the Minister for Armament. He was posted successively to the ‘Normandie-Niémen’ fighter group in 1947, to Bamako in the French West Indies in 1948, and to Cazaux in 1951. He was transferred to Indochina to the GATAC in Saigon in 1953 before being seconded to the 5th air region in Algiers in 1956, then to the staff of the higher command of the air forces of the French West Indies in Dakar in 1957. On his return to France, he was posted to the Conseil supérieur de l'infrastructure et de la navigation aérienne in 1960. Léon CUFFAUT left the active army in 1962 with the rank of Air Brigadier General.	2	1	Born 20 January 1911 in Charenton (94 - Val-de-Marne). Died 18 September 2002 in Paris (75)
CUILLER	Chief Warrant Officer	ECN IV/13	Wounded in aerial combat on May 17, 1940
CUNY Gilbert	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/4 on August 1939	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 14, 1940		1
CURTHELET	Adjutant	GC II/8