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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
D'ABBADIE-D'ARRAST Charles	Commander	GC II/2 on May 19, 1940	Killed in aerial combat on June 8, 1940
DAGBERT Charles	Adjutant	GC I/4		3	1
DALLAS	Candidate officer	GC III/9 on September 5, 1939 ECN V/13 on December 3, 1939
DALTOUR	Lieutenant	GC III/5
DAMBRINNE	Sergeant	GC II/6	Taken prisoner on May 13, 1940		1
DANSE	Adjutant	GC III/2	Wounded in aerial combat on May 14, 1940	1	-
DARDAINE Henri - Charles	Adjutant	GC II/4 by mistake (September 39) GC I/2 end of September 1939	Henri DARDAINE joined the Air Force in 1931. He obtained his Military Pilot's Licence in Istres and was posted to the 5th Fighter Wing in Bron. He joined the GC I/2 Group in September 1939 from the GC II/4. After the Armistice, he became a pilot in the Vichy Air Force and was seriously wounded in Syria in 1941. He then joined the Free French Air Force. After the war, he was posted to the Cabinet of André Philip, Minister for the Economy. In 1950, he returned to the Bron base as Flight Commander of the Reserves Training Centre. In 1956, he volunteered for Algeria. In 1957, he left the Air Force and continued his career in civil aviation, as a pilot for the newspaper "Le Progrès".	1		Born in Lunéville (54 - Meurthe et Moselle) on 7 January 1912 Died in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (69 - Rhône) on 13 January 1987
DARDIGNAC	Adjutant	GC III/9 on 18 May 1940
DARLAY	Sergeant	GC I/8			1
DARTAN	Colonel	DAT Etampes GC I/55
DARTEVELLE Jacques - Dieudonné	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/2	Georges DARTEVELLE, a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1939, was mobilised and joined the 5th Escadrille of the GC III/2, a group with which he took part in the French Campaign. On 20 May 1940, during an attack on a formation of German bombers, he was wounded, but managed to land his burning aircraft in the French lines (MS406 n°358). In June 1940, the GC III/2 withdrew to Algeria, before being disbanded on 25 August 1940. Placed on armistice leave, it joined the ‘Jeunesse et Montagne’ organisation, whose stated aim was to keep demobilised Air Force officers and volunteers active, in order to provide training for young people. When the organisation was disbanded in January 1944, Jacques DARTEVELLE resumed his training as an architect at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he obtained a final distinction on 09 November of the same year. In January 1945, he joined the Groupe de Chasse DORET, newly renamed ‘GC II/8 Saintonge’. This group, equipped with D520s, had the distinction of being the only fighter group commanded by the French Forces of the Interior. Based at Cognac at the time, the group took part in reducing pockets of German resistance in La Rochelle and Royan. As the Groupe Doret was gradually re-equipped with Spitfires, the old D520s were grouped together in a new Groupe de Chasse GC I/8 ‘Vendée’ based at Cognac. Lieutenant DARTEVELLE was one of the pilots assigned to this group. On 1st March 1945, Jacques DARTEVELLE took part in a mission to strafe a German column. During the engagement, Lieutenant DARTEVELLE's D520, flying too low, hit some trees and crashed to the ground where it caught fire instantly. The pilot burned to death in his aircraft. Lieutenant DARTEVELLE's body was buried in the Enghien les Bains cemetery. Source Mr Yannick JULIEN - Souvenir Français Comité Aunis Atlantique (Dec 2024)	1	-	Born on 24 January 1915 in Paris (75) Killed on 1 March 1945 near Dompierre sur Mer (17 - Charente-Maritime)
DARU Pierre	Captain	GC I/2 CIC on June 13, 1940	Transferred to CIC on June 13, 1940
DAUBARD	Lieutenant	GC II/10 GC II/9 on June 12, 1940
DAUBRESSE	Staff-Sergeant then Lieutenant	GC III/7 then GC II/2	Staff Sergeant DAUBRESSE, who passed the competitive examination at the Ecole des Officiers d'Active on 10 September 1939, was appointed as an aspirant and left the Group for his training at Versailles in November 1939. He joins GC II/2 after its formation
DAUNIZEAU Georges	Sergeant	GC II/9		2
DAVAL Jean	Lieutenant	GC II/9	Killed in aerial combat on June 3, 1940	1
DAVEAU	Sergeant	GC III/3
DAVID Edmond	Sergeant	ECN V/13	Wounded in aerial combat on June 1, 1940
DAVID	Adjutant	DAT Salon on May 28, 1940 GC I/3 on June 5, 1940
DAVY	Commander	GC III/4
DE-BARRES Alphonse	Chief Warrant Officer	ECN II/13	Pilot
DE-BAUMONT	Captain	GC III/9
DE-BERTREM Vladimir	Captain	GC III/2		1	-
DEBETHUNE Charles	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/4	Wounded in aerial combat on May 11, 1940	1
DE-BREMOND D'ARS Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/6		3	1
DE-CALONNE-D'AVESNES Baudouin	Captain	GC I/8 GC II/2		1	2
DE-CATHEU	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/10
DECHANET Pierre	Adjutant	GC III/1	Wounded in aerial combat on May 12, 1940	1	-
DE-CHASTEIGNER Guy	Adjutant	GC I/2	Killed by accident on 21 October 1939 (mortally wounded by Captain William when firing a rifle at stones: one of the bullets ricocheted and hit Warrant Officer DE-CHASTEIGNER in the head...)			Born 21 May 1908, Léognan (33 - Gironde) Died at Beauvais (60 - Oise) on 22 October 1939
DE-FALETANS	Sub-Lieutenant	CIC Cazaux DAT Bordeaux end of May 1940 GC I/55
DE-FAUCIGNY	Sub-Lieutenant	DAT Tours on May 12, 1940 GC I/55
DE-FRAVILLE Hubert	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/7		1	2
DE-GAIL HENRI	Captain	GC II/2	Killed in aerial combat on May 13, 1940	2	1
DE-GOLBERY Gaston	Lieutenant	ECN IV/13	Machine-gunner. Wounded in aerial combat on June 23, 1940
DE-GRANDPRES	Sergeant	GC I/9 CIC D'Oran GC III/10 on June 13, 1940
DEGUIN Charles	Sergeant	GC III/9	Killed by accident on December 12, 1939
DE-LA-BRETONNIERE Jacques	Lieutenant	GC III/1 GC I/2 on August 1939 GC III/1 on June 10, 1940	Reservist, he joined GC I / 2 in August 1939. Transferred to GC III / 1 on 10 Juny 1940.	2	1
DE-LA-CHAPELLE Antoine	Sergeant	GC II/4 on August 1939		7	1
DE-LA-FLECHERE Alexis	Sergeant	GC II/4 on March 1940,		2
DE-LA-GASNERIE Etienne	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/2		2	2
DELAGE	Adjutant	ECN IV/13	Pilot
DE LA-HORIE Guy Paul	Commander	GC I/4	Passed in AFN on June 18th, 1940 with the H75 n ° 248 On 25/08/1944 his P47D was hit by Flak: wounded, the pilot attempted a forced landing but hit a low wall and burst into flames...			Born on 24/08/21905 at Paramé-Saint-Malo (35 - Ille et Vilaine) Killed on 25/08/1944 (Drôme)
DE-LA-MENARDIERE	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/8	Wounded and taken prisoner on May 23, 1940
DELANNOY Raymond	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/5 on August 1939
DELARUE Raphael	Staff-Sergeant	GC III/7	Sergeant DELARUE, a reservist, was 37 years old in 1939. Injured in aerial combat on January 10, 1940	1	2
DE-LA-SALLE	Captain	GC I/8
DE-LA-TAILLE	Captain	GC II/1
DE-LA-TAILLE TRETINVILLE Harold Marie	Sub-Lieutenant	CIC Chartres GC I/4 on March 1, 1940	Killed in aerial combat on June 6, 1940	1	2	Born on 26/07/1918 at Fontenay-Le-Comte (85- Vendée) Killed on the 06:06/1940 at Orival (80 - Somme)
D'ELBEE Philippe	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/6			1
DELEGAY Robert - André	Chief Warrant Officer	GC I/1		3	1	Born on 20 January 1907 in Paris (75) Died 17 March 1983 at Créteil (94 - Val de Marne)
DE-L'ESTANG DU RUSQUEC Gonzagues	Captain	GC I/5 on June 20, 1940
DE-LESTAPIS Jacques	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/6	Killed in aerial combat on June 3, 1940
DELFINO Louis Barthelemy	Commander	GC I/4 GC II/9 on May 16, 1940	Leaves GC I / 4 May 16, 1940 for GC II / 9 He became the Commander of the Normandy Niemen Squadron from December 1944 to May 1945.	7	3	Born on 15/10/1912 at Nice (06 - Alpes-Maritimes) Died on 11/06/1968
DELHOUME	Sergeant	GC II/6		2
DELISLE André	Sergeant	GC II/2		3	1
DELMOTTE	Adjutant	ECN II/13	Wounded in aerial combat on May 17, 1940
DELOCQUE-FOURCAUD	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/8
DELPARTE André	Sergeant	GC I/5		1	1
DELUC	Sergeant	ECN II/13
DE-MAC-MAHON Maurice	Captain	GC II/1
DE-MAISTRE	Captain	GC II/8
DE-MALLMANN Gérard	Lieutenant	GC III/1	Wounded in aerial combat on May 26, 1940	2	-
DE-MONTGOLFIER Paul	Adjutant	GC II/5 on August 1939	Wounded in aerial combat on May 15, 1940	2	2
DEMOULIN Roger	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/6		1	1
DE-MUYSER Guy	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/2		1	-
DENIAU André	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/6		2	1
DENIEL	Staff-Sergeant	GC I/8 on November 21, 1939	Wounded by accident on February 12, 1940
DE-PINS Gérard - Joseph	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/10 GC I/1 on June 11, 1940	Assigned to the Group on 11th June 1940 from GC I/10. In January 1941, Lieutenant DE-PINS joined the GC I/4 in Dakar. After the war, Gérard DE-PINS was appointed General and commanded the BA116 base at Mont de Marsan from 10 May 1950 to 30 April 1960.	-	1	Born in Montpellier (34 - Hérault) on 19 March 1915 Died at Campet-et-Lamolère (40 - Landes) on 16 October 1998
DE-PLACE	Captain	GC III/4 GC III/6
DE-PONTON-D'AMECOURT	Commander	GC II/8
DE-PUYBUSQUE Jacques - Jean	Sergeant	GC I/2 on August 7, 1939	Jacques de PUYBUSQUE joined the French Air Force in 1938, and obtained his pilot's licence in July 1938. He joined the GC I/2 on 7 August 1939. After the Armistice, he was initially posted to the depot base at Salon en Provence, but volunteered to go to Indochina and was transferred to the A596 fighter squadron. On 27 June 1941, during a joint exercise with the French Navy, Jacques de PUYBUSQUE's Morane MS406 disappeared at sea.	7	-	Born on 22 October 1919 in Saint-Sulpice de Lézat (31 - Haute garonne) Died 27 June 1941 in Vietnam
DE RIVALS-MAZERES Guillaume	Captain	CEAM DAT Orléans-Bricy GC I/6 on June 8, 1940	Wounded in aerial combat on June 11, 1940	1
DE-ROHAN-CHABOT Henri	Lieutenant	GC II/2	Killed in aerial combat on May 14, 1940	3	-
DE-SAINT-MARCEAU	Staff-Sergeant	DAT Etampes
DESCHAMPS-DE-PAS	Commander	GC I/7
DE-SEYNES Maurice	Lieutenant	GC II/6		2		Born on August 7, 1914 at Paris Died on July 15, 1944
DESHONS Hubert	Sergeant	GC III/7 GC III/2	Assigned to the Group in March 1940. Injured in aerial combat May 15, 1940		1
DE-SOLMINIHAC	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/3	Wounded in aerial combat on June 13, 1940
DES ROZIERS	Captain	Patrol of Istres
DESRUMEAUX	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/2		1	2
DESSALLES	Captain	GC I/7
DESSAULT	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/3		1
DESSELAS	Lieutenant	DAT Bordeaux on May 20, 1940 GC I/55
DESTAILLAC Raymond	Captain	GC II/5 on August 1939		2	2
DETROYAT Michel	Lieutenant	GC I/1 Staé on October 31, 1939	Michel DETROYAT joined the Air Force in Istres in 1923. He very quickly showed great qualities as a pilot and excelled in acrobatics. He left the army in 1927 to become a test pilot with Morane-Saulnier. He took part in a number of air races and meetings, where he competed against Marcel DORET, another highly talented pilot. Michel DETROYAT became Hélène BOUCHER's acrobatics instructor in 1933 and in April 1938 became an advisor to the French Air Force. He joined the GC I/1 on 7 September 1939 before joining the STAé on 31 October 1939. Demobilised in July 1940, he remained close to the Vichy government and provided technical support to the occupying forces, leading to his arrest in October 1944 at the time of the liberation. He was released in November 1945 and sentenced in January 1946 to national degradation and a 20-year residence ban. He returned to France in 1951 and resumed his career as a pilot. He died in 1956 of a cerebral embolism.			Born 28 October 1905, Paris (75) Died at Neuilly-sur-Seine (92 - Hauts de Seine) on 5 October 1956
DE-VAUBLANC Bernard	Captain	GC II/8		2
DE-VILLARS Abel Marie	Lieutenant	GC I/2 GC II/1	He was killed in air combat on 05/12/1942	2	-	Born in Toulon (83 - Var) on 25 April 1915 Died at Meknès (Morocco) on 05 December 1942
DE-VILLOUTREYS Adrien	Sergeant	ECN IV/13	Killed by accident on September 8, 1939
DEVIN	Sergeant	GC II/6		1
D'HARCOURT Robert	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/3	Killed in aerial combat on May 21, 1940
DHOMME	Colonel	DAT Etampes
DIAZ Jean	Adjutant	GC I/2 GC III/6 on April 15, 1939	Left Group GC I/2 on 15 April to join GC III/6. After the Armistice, he volunteered for Indo-China, which he joined in October 1940.
DIETRICH François	Sergeant	GC II/4	Killed in aerial combat on May 25, 1940	3
DIETRICH Henri - Auguste	Sub-Lieutenant	CIC Chartres GC II/10 GC II/8 on March 6, 1940	Henri DIETRICH was called up in 1936 and posted to the Orly base. He attended the Etampes school. During the war, he was posted successively to the Chartres CIC, the GC II/10 and finally the GC II/8, in which group he scored two victories. He was demobilised at the Armistice and tried unsuccessfully to go to England. Recalled in 1944, he joined the Kasba Tadla training centre and then the Tours school. Henri DIETRICH was demobilised in 1946 and carried out training periods in the reserves until 1971.	2		Born on 16 February 1911 in Saint-Denis (93 - Seine-Saint-Denis) Died in Deuil-La-Barre (95 - Val d'Oise) on 14 December 2007.
D'IRUMBERRY DE SALABERRY Hubert Amédée	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/3		5	1	Born on 13/07/1913 Died on 24/10/1999
DORANCE Michel - Irénée	Lieutenant	GC I/5	Michel DORANCE enlisted voluntarily on 22 October 1934. He entered the Ecole de l'Air in 1935, then became Squadron Commander of the 5th Wing in 1938 and of the GCI/5 fighter group in 1939. He was appointed deputy to the Air Attaché in Washington on 1st September 1940. In AFN, he took command of the GC I/3 and then the GC I/7. He was appointed Executive Officer of the 2nd Fighter Wing in March 1945. In August 1946, he became Air Defence General Staff Officer, then Commander of the 6th Fighter-Bomber Wing. In 1950, he was appointed Commander of the Tactical Air Control Group before becoming . Plans Officer at the 4th Allied Tactical Air Force in 1952. He was promoted to second-in-command of the Ecole de l'Air in August 1955, then Commander of the 3rd Air Brigade and finally Commander of Reims base 112 in 1958. He was appointed Commander of the Combined Air Operations School in 1960, then Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations and Training) at the Allied Forces Central Europe Headquarters in March 1961. In 1963, he became the Armed Forces Attaché and Air Attaché to the French Ambassador in Washington. He left the Army at the end of 1966 with the rank of Air Division General.	14	3	Born 13 August 1914, Paris (75) Died 17 January 1986, Montpellier (34 - Hérault)
DORCY Pierre	Chief Warrant Officer	GC II/2		6	-
DOUARRE Pierre	Sergeant	GC III/7	Sergeant DOUARRE, who passed the competitive examination at the Ecole des Officiers d'Active on 10 September 1939, was appointed as an aspirant and left the Group for his training at Versailles in November 1939.
DOUBLET Kléber	Sergeant	GC III/1	Killed in aerial combat on June 11, 1940	6	1
DOUCET René	Adjutant	DAT Etampes
DOUCHA	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/2		1	-
DOUDIES Jean	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/7		7	3
DREIX-DE-LAPLANE	Lieutenant	DAT Tours on May 12, 1940 GC I/55
DROIT Marcel	Sergeant	GC I/8	Killed by accident on January 26, 1940
DUBONNET André	Commander	GC I/2	André DUBONNET enlisted voluntarily in 1915 and was initially posted to the artillery. He joined the air force in October 1915, and was trained at the Bue school before being certified as a pilot in March 1917. He was posted to the 1st aerostation group in May 1916 and then to the 1st aviation group in February 1917. He was transferred to the 2nd aviation group in April 1918. He was temporarily discharged from 1919 to 1923 and then transferred to the reserves. He was recalled in September 1939 and assigned to the staff of the GC 1/2 fighter group, before being demobilised in July 1940.			Born 28 June 1897, Paris (75) Died 23 January 1980 at Maule (78 - Yvelines)
DUBOST Albert - Marcel	Sergeant	GC I/1		3	1	Born in Pionsat (63 - Puy de Dôme) on 9 April 1918 Died at Pionsat on 30 May 1995
DU BOUCHER Jacques - Frédéric	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/1 GC I/6 GC III/9	Jacques DU BOUCHER joined the French Air Force in 1937. He was a student at the École de l'Air in Salon-de-Provence in 1937, then at the Étampes flying school in 1939. He was posted successively to the GC III/1, GC I/6 and GC III/9 in 1940 and took part in the French campaign. He was demobilised in November 1942. He was appointed Air Service Officer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité in Paris and then in Lyon in 1943. He was promoted to departmental director Director of Signals at the Landes military subdivision in 1944. He was posted to He was posted to the fighter training centre in Meknes, then transferred to the No. 1 fighter squadron in Friedrichshafen, before being sent with the squadron to Indochina in 1945. He returned to Friedrichshafen in July 1946. Jacques DU BOUCHER retired in 1946. He completed numerous training periods and took part in the Moroccan air rally in 1950.	2	-	Born 23 September 1916 in Flavignac (87 - Haute-Vienne) Died at Bayonne (64 - Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on 14 December 2002
DUBOZ	Sergeant	GC II/9
DUBREUIL Ferdinand	Lieutenant	GC II/1 GC III/2		2	1
DUCANCELLE Pierre	Sergeant	ECN IV/13	Radio
DUCHENE-MARULAZ Jacques	Sub-Lieutenant	GC I/6	Wounded in aerial combat on May 20, 1940
DUCLOS	Sergeant	GC III/2	Taken prisoner on September 22, 1939
DUFFOUR Pierre	Sergeant	ECN I/13 ECMJ I/16	Killed in aerial combat on June 3, 1940
DUFLOS	Staff-Sergeant	GC II/10
DUFFOUR Pierre	Sergeant	GC II/9	Radio_Machine-gunner. Killed by accident on March 5, 1940
DUGIT-GROS	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/2
DUGOUJON Jean	Adjutant	GC II/5 on August 1939		4	3
DULAC Robert	Captain	GC II/10		1
DUMAS Paul	Chief Warrant Officer	DAT Chateaudun		1
DUMOULIN	Sub-Lieutenant	DAT Bordeaux
DUMOULIN Louis	Sergeant	GC I/3		1		Born on 18/02/1912 at Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent (49 - Maine et Loire) Died on 01/07/1996 at Mougins (06 - Alpes Maritimes)
DUNOD Georges	Lieutenant	CIC Montpellier GC II/5 on May 19, 1940		1
DUPERRET Gabriel	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/4 on August 1939	Killed in aerial combat on May 12, 1940
DUPOUY Pierre	Sergeant	GC I/8	Killed in aerial combat on May 17, 1940
DURAND	Adjutant	GC III/9
DURAND Albert	Sergeant	GC III/1		4	1
DURAND	Staff-Sergeant	ECN II/13	Killed by accident on April 12, 1940
DURANTHON André - Henri	Sub-Lieutenant	GC II/2 GC I/9 on April 8, 1940	André Duranthon enlisted voluntarily in 1931. He qualified as a mechanic. He was posted to the III/6 in 1936 before being admitted to the Ecole de l'Air in 1938. He took part in the French campaign with the GC II/2 and then with the GC I/9 from 8 April 1940. He joined AFN in Casablanca. He was posted to the Marrakech school in 1945, then to Indochina in 1952 as commander of the Bach Maï base. He was posted to the Inspectorate General of the French Air Force in 1954. He took command of the Telergma base in 1955, then was posted to SHAPE in 1957. He took part in the Berlin airlift. André DURANTHON was placed on leave from the Air Force in 1961 with the rank of Colonel.			Born on 21 November 1910 in Saint-Meard-de-Drone (24 - Dordogne) Died in Aubervilliers (93 - Seine-Saint-Denis) on 13 December 2009
DURIEUX	Commander	GC II/7		1
DUROUCHARD	Sergeant	GC II/6	Killed by accident on September 22, 1939
DU-RUSQUE	Captain	DAT Chartres
DUSSART	Lieutenant	GC II/7	Wounded in aerial combat on May 11, 1940	2	1
DUSSAULT	Captain	GC II/3	Fait prisonnier on May 22, 1940		1
DUTEY-HARISPE	Lieutenant	GC II/10 GC II/8 on April 15, 1940			2
DUVAL Roger - Georges	Captain	GC II/1 GC III/3 on February 04, 1940	Roger DUVAL entered the École de Saint-Cyr in 1931 and the Ecole Militaire et d'Application de l'AA in 1933. He was then posted to the 22nd Bombardment Wing at Orléans, before moving to the Fighter Wing. He took part in the French campaign with the GC II/1, withdrew with his group to AFN and was sent to Syria in 1941. He took command of the GC I/3 with which he took part in operations in Corsica and the Provence landings. He was appointed second-in-command of the Tours school, then sent to Indochina in 1947 before joining the École de guerre and the CSI. Roger DUVAL was appointed Commander of the Marrakech base in 1951, before being posted to the Allied air force centre at Fontainebleau in 1955. In 1958, he was posted to GATAC No. 1 in Constantine, and in 1959 was appointed deputy commander of the 2nd air region and commander of the AA's light aviation. Roger DUVAL was placed on aircrew leave in 1962.	1	1	Born on 15 July 1912 in Nogent-Le-Rotrou (27 - Eure-et-Loir) Died on 2 September 2014 in Fontenay-sous-Bois (94 - Val de Marne)
DUVERDIER	Sergeant	GC II/1
DUVILLARD	Sub-Lieutenant	GC III/10 on June 7, 1940