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French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) Reference List


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Cot, Pierre French Air Minister from 1933-34 and 1936-1938
Denain, Victor First Chief of Staff of the French Air Force (1932) and later French Air Minister (1934-1936)
Duval, Maurice Commander of the French air service (Chef du Service Aeronautique) during World War I
Garros, Roland Early French aviator and World War I fighter pilot who invented one of the earliest practical means for firing a machine gun through the airplane's propeller
Guynemer, Georges France's second highest scoring, but perhaps most famous, fighter ace of World War I
McConnell, James American volunteer pilot who flew for France during World War I as a member of the Escadrille Américaine
Vuillemin, Joseph World War I French ace and commander of the French air forces from 1938 to 1940

 

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  Title Author Year
The Breguet 14 Bruce, J. M.; Noel, Jean 1967
Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun McConnell, James R. 1917
The Forgotten Air Force: French Air Doctrine in the 1930s Cain, Christopher 2002
State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry Chapman, Herrick 1990


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  Title Author Journal Volume
The French Air Force in 1940: Was it Defeated by the Luftwaffe or by Politics? Kirkland, Faris R. Air and Space Power Journal (Air University Review) September-October 1985


[edit] Other Documents

  Title Year
Neither Decadent, Nor Traitorous, Nor Stupid: The French Air Force and Air Doctrine in the 1930s 2000
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