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		<title>Maxime LENOIR &#8211; L&#8217;as de Verdun disparaît le 25 octobre 1916</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Souvenez-vous de Maxime Lenoir, cet as de Touraine revient à plusieurs reprises sur ce blog. Car aujourd&#8217;hui, il y a exactement 103 ans, il était porté disparu loin derrière les lignes ennemies au nord de Verdun Après avoir obtenu son<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span></p>
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<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="919" height="871" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun.jpg" alt="Maxime LENOIR posant devant son aéroplane Nieuport. As de Verdun, aviateur, héros, " class="wp-image-12031" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun.jpg 919w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-300x284.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-768x728.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-100x95.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-150x142.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-200x190.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-450x426.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-600x569.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/as_de_verdun-900x853.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px" /><figcaption>Maxime LENOIR posant devant son aéroplane Nieuport en 1916</figcaption></figure></div>


<p style="text-align: justify;">Souvenez-vous de Maxime Lenoir, cet as de Touraine revient à plusieurs reprises sur <a href="/tag/maxime-lenoir/">ce blog</a>. Car aujourd&rsquo;hui, il y a exactement 103 ans, il était porté disparu loin derrière les lignes ennemies au nord de Verdun</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Après avoir obtenu son brevet de pilote en 1913, il devient rapidement un excellent aviateur pour les acrobaties aériennes à l&rsquo;école de pilotage de Buc, à l&rsquo;<a href="/tag/buc/">Aéroparc de Louis Blériot</a>. La guerre éclate et il rejoint la cavalerie avant de devenir un des premiers pilotes de chasse <a href="/2014/12/22/among-greatest-pilots-maxime-lenoir-destiny/">au palmarès impressionnant</a> pour l&rsquo;époque.</p>


<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><img decoding="async" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl.jpg" alt="Commémoration Maxime Lenoir 11 novembre 2016 école" class="wp-image-10888" width="363" height="479"/><figcaption>Portail de l&rsquo;école Maxime LENOIR à Chargé en Indre-et-Loire</figcaption></figure></div>


<h2>Reconnaissance d&rsquo;un héros oublié</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sa famille restera longtemps dans une tristesse insondable face à cette disparition soudaine qui laissera le meilleur as de la bataille de Verdun (avec Navarre et Nungesser) dans l&rsquo;oubli pendant un siècle. Heureusement, il y a aujourd&rsquo;hui de quoi se réjouir: après une cérémonie à Chargé, son village natal, et une plaque dévoilée devant l&rsquo;école qu&rsquo;il fréquentait, rebaptisée à son nom le 1er novembre 1916, après une salle de cours « Maxime LENOIR » inaugurée au CLAS 00.307 (Centre de Langue Aéronautique Spécialisé de l&rsquo;armée de l&rsquo;air,) la superbe dérive d&rsquo;Alphajet peinte à son effigie pour <a href="https://youtu.be/3jT9Xg_-yBs?t=229">Alphajet Solo Display</a>, c&rsquo;est l&rsquo;Institution Marmoutier et Pierre Rampini qui ont décidé de donner le nom de baptême Maxime LENOIR à leur promotion du BIA (Brevet d&rsquo;Initiation Aéronautique.)</p>
<h2>Au panthéon du Bourget</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Les journaux et magazines dont le Fana de l&rsquo;aviation lui ont attribué de larges extrait avec des recherches supplémentaires. Enfin et surtout, c&rsquo;est Yvon Goutx (2S), auteur et membre de l&rsquo;<a href="https://www.memorial-des-aviateurs.fr/">Association du Mémorial des Aviateurs</a> (AMA) qui a choisi d&rsquo;intégrer Maxime Lenoir parmi « Les Légendes » de l&rsquo;espace mémoriel au <a href="https://www.museeairespace.fr/">Musée de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace</a> du Bourget.</p>
<p>Au plus fort de la bataille de Verdun, le lendemain de la reprise du fort de Douaumont, <strong>Maxime Lenoir</strong> devenait ce 25 octobre 1916 le 7e pilote français mort au combat sur son SPAD VII « <em><strong>Trompe la Mort</strong></em>« , mais il était aussi à ce moment-là:</p>
<p><strong>L’as des as de Verdun </strong>depuis 3 mois<br /><strong>L’As des as des Alliés morts au combat</strong><br /><strong>Le 1<sup class="typo_exposants">er</sup> double as français mort au combat</strong><br />Le 3<sup class="typo_exposants">e</sup> as au monde en nombre de victoires parmi les pilotes morts au combat<br />Le 3<sup class="typo_exposants">e</sup> as français mort au combat après Pégoud et de Rochefort</p>
<h2>Bullard et Lenoir sur Alphajet Solo Display</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">C&rsquo;est sans doute le destin qui a placé Eugene Bullard de l&rsquo;autre côté de la dérive sur les avions d&rsquo;Alphajet Solo Display. Car lui aussi vient d&rsquo;être plus amplement reconnu avec une statue érigée aux États-Unis. Souvenons-nous d&rsquo;eux, souvenons-nous qu&rsquo;un 25 octobre un jeune Tourangeau de Chargé décollait pour partir en solo à bord de son SPAD VII portant sur les flancs « TROMPE LA MORT » comme pour se donner du courage. Hélas, le soir de cette journée fatale, il n&rsquo;est pas revenu. Ce n&rsquo;est que bien plus tard, grâce au journaliste <a href="https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/">Didier Lecoq</a>, qu&rsquo;on a découvert <a href="/2016/11/13/maxime-lenoir-celebre/">une photo de la carcasse de son SPAD VII</a> détruite avec une croix en bois gravée par les Allemands qui lui rendirent un dernier hommage. D&rsquo;après <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/stores/Jean-Marc-Binot/author/B001JOXHRE?ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true">Jean-Marc Binot</a> et son livre « <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Georges-Guynemer-Jean-Marc-Binot/dp/2213677638/">Georges Guynemer</a>« , aux éditions Fayard, page 305, on peut lire:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>« Journal socialiste de Milan, Il Popolo, relate les funérailles rendues au capitaine </em>(Guynemer), <em>tout comme la Stampa de Turin, qui loue l&rsquo;attitude chevaleresque des Allemands. Ce type d&rsquo;hommage entre ennemis n&rsquo;a rien d&rsquo;invraisemblable. Descendu à Verdun, un autre as, l&rsquo;adjudant Maxime Lenoir, aurait également bénéficié d&rsquo;un cérémonial particulier et d&rsquo;une tombe ornée des ailerons de son appareil. »</em></p>


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<p align="justify">Il est en vente à 9,93 € mais il ne vous en coûtera que 2,99 € si vous achetez un livre broché ( 29,96 € avec la nouvelle version revue et enrichie). Un échantillon est consultable ci-dessous, en bas à gauche.</p>
<p align="justify">C&rsquo;est le livre qu&rsquo;il vous faut si vous souhaitez comprendre en quoi consistait la conquête de l&rsquo;air depuis l&rsquo;antiquité jusqu&rsquo;aux débuts de la guerre aérienne au dessus de Verdun avec le héros tourangeau Maxime Lenoir, le premier double as français mort au combat, le meilleur des aviateurs de Verdun entre juillet et octobre 1916.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 18:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>(Same article in English at the bottom of this page) L&#8217;association Fondett&#8217;Ailes a bien fait les choses en ce samedi 30 septembre et dimanche 1er octobre 2017 à Fondettes, près de Tours. L&#8217;exposition démarrait avec une présentation de l&#8217;icône de<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11369" src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr.jpg" alt="Gérard Souedet, Toni Giacoia et des visiteurs. Exposition Fondett'Ailes à Fondettes sur le centenaire de la disparition de Guynemer et dédicace du livre Une autre histoire de l'aviation" width="1020" height="573" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr.jpg 1020w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-300x169.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-768x431.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-100x56.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-150x84.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-200x112.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-450x253.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-600x337.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171001_fondettailes_article_photo_nr-900x506.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px" /></a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><em>(Same article in English at the bottom of this page)</em></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">L&rsquo;association <a href="http://www.fondett-ailes.fr/index.php/fr/">Fondett&rsquo;Ailes</a> a bien fait les choses en ce samedi 30 septembre et dimanche 1er octobre 2017 à Fondettes, près de Tours. L&rsquo;exposition démarrait avec une présentation de l&rsquo;icône de l&rsquo;aéronautique militaire française de la Grande Guerre, le Capitaine Georges Guynemer, l&rsquo;as aux 53 victoires homologuées. On y découvrait ce jeune homme chétif, au caractère déjà bien trempé. Guynemer venait d&rsquo;une famille de la bourgeoisie qui descendait de Louis XII. Il n&rsquo;était pas vraiment destiné à devenir un des plus brillants aviateurs au monde. Cependant l&rsquo;opiniâtreté du capitaine de l&rsquo;escadrille des Cigognes le menèrent au firmament de la gloire lorsqu&rsquo;il fût abattu le 11 septembre 1917 à Poelkappelle. Des maquettes étaient exposées et en particulier celles qui furent frappées du « Vieux Charles » de Guynemer: Morane-Saulnier, Nieuport et SPAD, ainsi que d&rsquo;autres maquettes d&rsquo;avions d&rsquo;époque et d&rsquo;appareils pilotés par ses victimes. Des extraits de  journaux rapportaient les combats aériens qu&rsquo;il a livrés des débuts à la fin tragique qui conserve toujours une part de mystère.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">L&rsquo;exposition rendait aussi hommage aux autres grands as de la période 14-18 avec notamment Dorme, Nungesser, Navarre et le héros local Maxime Lenoir. Depuis que le journaliste Didier Lecoq a retrouvé sa trace et que<a href="http://www.charge37.fr/fr/en-images-diaporama/64266/11-novembre-2016"> le village de Chargé a commémoré la disparition de l&rsquo;as tourangeau</a>, meilleur as de Verdun entre juin et octobre 1916, les Tourangeaux, les amateurs de la Grande Guerre et les historiens ont pu découvrir, ou redécouvrir pour certains, « Le Guynemer de la Touraine » grâce à un panneau entièrement consacré à Maxime Lenoir et ses exploits. Des uniformes des aviateurs, masque à gaz et fléchettes étaient présentés et surtout trois pièces de collection spectaculaires: une grande hélice, un appareil de photographie aérienne Gaumont aux dimensions étonnantes et un superbe moteur rotatif Clerget Blin avec ses neuf cylindres, immanquable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Enfin, le livre <em>Une autre histoire de l&rsquo;aviation</em> était présenté en dédicace. Vous pouvez consulter l&rsquo;article de La Nouvelle République ci-dessous ou directement sur ce lien: <a href="https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/indre-et-loire/commune/fondettes/georges-guynemer-as-des-as-cent-ans-apres">https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/tours/georges-guynemer-as-des-as-cent-ans-apres</a></p>
<p><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11370" src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin.jpg" alt="Article de la Nouvelle République sur l'exposition de Fondett'Ailes (président Gérard Souedet) à Fondettes, salle Jacques Villeret au centre culturel de l'Aubrière. Centenaire de la disparition du capitaine Georges Guynemer, dédicace du livre Une autre histoire de l'aviation de Toni Giacoia, moteur Clerget Blin" width="810" height="579" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin.jpg 810w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-300x214.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-768x549.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-100x71.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-150x107.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-200x143.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-450x322.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171007_fondettailes_moteur_clerget_blin-600x429.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Un grand merci à l&rsquo;association <a href="http://www.fondett-ailes.fr/index.php/fr/">Fondett&rsquo;Ailes</a> et son président Gérard Souedet pour leur accueil. Un grand merci aussi à Didier Lecoq, Secrétaire Général à <a href="https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/indre-et-loire/commune/fondettes/georges-guynemer-as-des-as-cent-ans-apres">La Nouvelle République</a>, pour son accord et toutes ses informations sur Maxime Lenoir.</p>
<h3>IN ENGLISH:</h3>
<p><figure id="attachment_11377" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11377" style="width: 405px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.fondett-ailes.fr/index.php/fr/actualites"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-11377" title="Affiche Guynemer Fondett'Ailes" src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-724x1024.jpg" alt="Affiche de l'association Fondett'Ailes pour les 100 ans de la disparition du capitaine Georges Guynemer" width="405" height="573" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-724x1024.jpg 724w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-212x300.jpg 212w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-768x1086.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-100x141.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-150x212.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-200x283.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-300x424.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-450x636.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-600x848.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB-900x1272.jpg 900w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100ansGGuynemer2-WEB.jpg 1020w" sizes="(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-11377" class="wp-caption-text">Affiche de l&rsquo;association Fondett&rsquo;Ailes www.fondett-ailes.fr</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Fondett&rsquo;Ailes association did well on Saturday 30 September and Sunday 1 October 2017 in Fondettes, near Tours. The exhibition opened with a presentation of of the WW1 French military aeronautics icon, Captain Georges Guynemer, the ace of 53 approved victories. He was depicted as a young sickly man, who had a temperament that was already very strong. Guynemer came from a bourgeois family that was descended from Louis XII. He wasn&rsquo;t really destined to become one of the most brilliant aviators in the world. However, the stubbornness of the captain of the Cigognes squadron led him to the firmament of glory when he was shot down at Poelkappelle, Belgium, on September 11, 1917. Models were on display, particularly those of the « Vieux Charles » from Guynemer: Morane-Saulnier, Nieuport and SPAD, as well as other models of aircraft from this era and aircraft flown by his victims. Newspaper clippings reported the dogfights he fought from the beginning to the tragic end which has always kept a part of mystery.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The exhibition also paid tribute to the other great aces of the WW1 period with Dorme, Nungesser, Navarre and the local hero Maxime Lenoir. Since the journalist Didier Lecoq found his trail, and since the village of Chargé commemorated the disappearance of the ace of the Loire Valley &#8211; the best ace of Verdun between June and October 1916 &#8211; the visitors of the Loire Valley, amateurs of the Great War and historians have discovered, or rediscovered for some, the « Guynemer of Touraine » thanks to a panel entirely dedicated to Maxime Lenoir and his feats. Aviators&rsquo; uniforms, gas mask and darts were displayed, and above all three spectacular collector&rsquo;s pieces were displayed: a large propeller, a Gaumont aerial camera with amazing dimensions and a superb Clerget Blin rotary engine with its nine cylinders, unavoidable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last but not least, the book Une Autre Histoire de l&rsquo;Aviation was presented for book signing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Many thanks to the association Fondett&rsquo;Ailes and their chairman Gérard Souedet for their welcome. Many thanks also to Didier Lecoq, Secretary General of La Nouvelle République, for his agreement and all his information on Maxime Lenoir.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is a tribute to Captain Georges GUYNEMER who was killed in action on September 11th, 1917. Three months earlier, he fought with Ernst Udet, the ace who came up 2nd after the Red Baron. You can watch hereafter how<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is a tribute to Captain Georges GUYNEMER who was killed in action on September 11th, 1917. Three months earlier, he fought with Ernst Udet, the ace who came up 2<sup>nd</sup> after the Red Baron. You can watch hereafter how this dogfight reportedly happened, and how these fighter pilots had the gut to keep honor above all:</p>
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<p><figure style="width: 333px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Georges_guynemer_par_lucien.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" title="Georges Guynemer by &quot;Lucien&quot;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Georges_guynemer_par_lucien.jpg" alt="Georges Guynemer, French Air Force pilot and WWI ace" width="333" height="463"/></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Georges Guynemer by « Lucien » &#8211; Jebulon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jebulon</figcaption></figure></p>
<h4>Remember Guynemer&rsquo;s mottos:</h4>
<h4>FAIRE FACE (face up to it) was then adopted by the French Air Force Academy (FAFA) as their motto. A few words that well expresse the French pilots&rsquo; bravery.</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">WWI French ace Georges Guynemer used to say:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">« Il y a une limite à toute chose, et il faut toujours la dépasser. »</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&lsquo;Everything has a limit which has always got to be surpassed.&rsquo;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">« Lorsque l&rsquo;on n&rsquo;a pas tout donné, on n&rsquo;a rien donné. »</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&lsquo;As long as you have not given your all, you have given nothing.&rsquo;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Loyal to these principles, the French ace took part in several hundreds of aerial combats, crediting 53 victories, maybe 88 victories because the French victory validation system was demanding. He was shot down seven times, and he was admired for he always survived, but that September 11, a hundred years ago. The hero took off once again, dashed to the frontlines, outnumbered by German warplanes in a last dogfighting over Belgium. Then, he fell. Since then, the French Air Force aviators have worn a black tie in sign of mourning.</p>
<p>RIP</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Six obus par mètre carré sont tombés pendant la bataille de Verdun. Des milliers de vies furent emportées pendant 300 jours. Comme beaucoup d&#8217;autres villages, Chargé égrène ses morts pour la France en ce matin du 11 novembre 2016. Dans<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-10879 " src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-1024x755.jpg" alt="Crash Maxime Lenoir Verdun Tombe" width="536" height="395" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-300x221.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-768x566.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-100x74.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-150x111.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-200x147.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-450x332.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-600x442.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl-900x664.jpg 900w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lenoir_tombe_cl.jpg 1276w" sizes="(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px" /> Six obus par mètre carré sont tombés pendant la bataille de Verdun. Des milliers de vies furent emportées pendant 300 jours. Comme beaucoup d&rsquo;autres villages, <a href="http://www.charge37.fr/">Chargé</a> égrène ses morts pour la France en ce matin du 11 novembre 2016. Dans ce sinistre décompte, chaque poilu tombé reste un drame, une douleur dans chaque famille. LENOIR Maxime figure dans cette longue liste. Il fut porté disparu le 25 octobre 1916 jusqu&rsquo;à ce que le journaliste Didier Lecoq ne découvre une photo d&rsquo;un collectionneur berlinois qui montre un SPAD VII disloqué avec une croix plantée et gravée par les Allemands pour rendre les honneurs à celui qui fut l&rsquo;as de Verdun. Les pilotes allemands redoutaient ses attaques, pourtant souvent solitaires. Seuls les as avaient ce privilège. Si Jean Navarre est toujours reconnu comme « la sentinelle de Verdun », cette disparition laissant peu de traces a plongé Maxime Lenoir dans l&rsquo;oubli pendant presqu&rsquo;un siècle. Le mystère empêchait le deuil et la commune attendait une confirmation pour célébrer son héros. C&rsquo;est fait. Il avait déjà été célébré le 19 septembre 2014 comme le héros de Tours et de l&rsquo;Indre-et-Loire mais il y avait toujours des incertitudes sur sa disparition. Depuis ce matin, l&rsquo;école du village de Chargé s&rsquo;appelle désormais École Maxime Lenoir. Le maire de la commune Pascal Dupré et son adjointe Marie-Noëlle Mailliez décidèrent en janvier de préparer une journée de commémoration. Il faut quand même rappeler que Maxime Lenoir faisait partie des quelques rares pilotes avant la guerre à pouvoir réaliser dix loopings d&rsquo;affilée dès février 1914. Il faisait le tour de France pour donner des shows aériens avec son numéro <em>Looping the loop</em>, bouclant la boucle.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-10880 size-full" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl.jpg" alt="Maxime Lenoir aeroplane Looping the Loop sur Blériot XI" width="1530" height="604" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl.jpg 1530w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-300x118.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-768x303.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-1024x404.jpg 1024w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-100x39.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-150x59.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-200x79.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-450x178.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-600x237.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/s1200_lenoir_remorquee_copl-900x355.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Son talent et son courage lui ont ensuite permis de se retrouver parmi les meilleurs pilotes de chasse au monde, cités dans la presse internationale. D&rsquo;après le journaliste Jacques Mortane, l&rsquo;avion de Maxime Lenoir était connu comme le loup blanc. Toujours derrière les lignes ennemies, son biplan rentrant souvent criblé de balles, le destin de l&rsquo;as de Verdun s&rsquo;est arrêté là, à quelques kilomètres au nord du fort de Douaumont, au lendemain de la reprise du bastion par les poilus. Douaumont reconquis, le général von Falkenhayn savait que la suite de la guerre serait très dure pour les Allemands.<br />
<a href="https://www.museeairespace.fr/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-10881 size-large" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-1024x728.jpeg" alt="Photo musée de l'air et de l'espace MA 33504 Navarre Fequant Lenoir" width="750" height="533" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-1024x728.jpeg 1024w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-300x213.jpeg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-768x546.jpeg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-100x71.jpeg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-150x107.jpeg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-200x142.jpeg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-450x320.jpeg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-600x427.jpeg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MA_33504_NAVARRE_FEQUANT_LENOIR_drl-900x640.jpeg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" /></a> Si on se souvient des fantassins qui ont tout donné dans les tranchées pour tenir leurs positions à Verdun, on oublie trop souvent que la bataille de Verdun s&rsquo;est jouée dans les airs et que les pilotes de chasse n&rsquo;étaient pas nombreux pour affronter les terribles Fokkers des Allemands en février 1916. Lorsque le général Pétain devant ses lignes exsangues, demande au commandant Charles de Tricornot de Rose « De Rose, je suis aveugle ! Balayez-moi le ciel ! Sinon, c&rsquo;est simple, Verdun sera perdue. » Et si Verdun avait été perdue, la France aurait probablement perdu la guerre. Lenoir à l&rsquo;escadrille N23 et son ami Navarre à la N67 voisine seront les fers de lance sur leurs nouveaux Nieuport et SPAD. Leurs efforts seront renforcés d&rsquo;escadrilles dotées du Farman F.40 qui anéantiront à la fois les ballons Drachen lourdement défendus et mettront à la peine les Fokkers. Le bras de fer gagné dans le ciel de Verdun, l&rsquo;artillerie française reprendra l&rsquo;avantage pour anéantir les espoirs de von Falkenhayn. Navarre blessé, Lenoir va devenir l&rsquo;as comptant le plus de victoires sur Verdun, il sera le premier à abattre un Drachen officiellement, le premier à abattre un bombardier Gotha avant même Guynemer. Il va enfin devenir le premier double-as mort au combat, le troisième as français abattu après Pégoud et de Rochefort.<br />
En cette journée du souvenir, des enfants de l&rsquo;école de Chargé chantent la Marseillaise devant le monument au mort. Jamais le village n&rsquo;a connu une telle affluence pour le 11 novembre. Il faut dire que la commune a tout prévu pour cette journée dédiée aux poilus, qui est aussi le centenaire de la mort de Maxime Lenoir. Après la mise en place, le maire accueille la députée Claude Greff, le secrétaire général de la préfecture d&rsquo;Indre-et-Loire Jacques Lucbereilh, le conseiller départemental Rémi Leveau, et l&rsquo;inspecteur de l&rsquo;éducation nationale Patrick Seweryn. L&rsquo;armée de l&rsquo;air est venue en nombre, les associations d&rsquo;anciens combattants et retraités militaires de l&rsquo;armée de l&rsquo;air aussi pour rendre hommage aux morts pour la France et plus particulièrement à l&rsquo;as de Verdun. Sans le président de l&rsquo;Armil 37, Michel Camus, qui tenait à participer à l&rsquo;événement, il n&rsquo;y aurait pas eu de porte-drapeau. C&rsquo;est Charles Bonté qui a répondu à l&rsquo;appel ce jour-là pour honorer les morts au combat. Le village leur doit une fière chandelle.<br />
<a href="http://aileslimousines.free.fr/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-10882 " src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-1024x768.jpg" alt="Blériot XI Jean-Yves Valor" width="504" height="378" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-300x225.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-768x576.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-100x75.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-150x113.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-200x150.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-450x338.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-600x450.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l-900x675.jpg 900w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161110_185744l.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px" /></a> La veille, un Blériot XI fut courageusement acheminé depuis la Haute-Vienne par Jean-Yves Valor et l&rsquo;association <a href="http://aileslimousines.free.fr/">Les Ailes Limousines</a> dans la salle des fêtes. Après la cérémonie devant le monument de la Première Guerre mondiale, le maire et les officiels font des discours très appréciés qui rappellent le sens de cette manifestation devant la famille Lenoir, Abel Anjorand (l&rsquo;historien local), Philippe Girard (dont la famille jadis accueillit l&rsquo;acrobate du ciel dans leur ferme de la Girardière), et <a href="https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/">Didier Lecoq</a>, sans lesquels rien ne serait jamais arrivé. Et notamment cette inauguration qui était impensable il y a seulement trois ans. C&rsquo;est aussi grâce au groupe de travail mis en place avec les adjoints au maire Marie-Claude Métivier, Gérald Letourmy et bien d&rsquo;autres villageois. Le maire et deux élèves dévoilent une superbe plaque à l&rsquo;entrée de l&rsquo;école du bourg avec la silhouette du pionnier de l&rsquo;aviation qui fut jadis un écolier dans cet établissement. La aussi, la boucle est bouclée. Le maire vient de rappeler dans son discours que Maxime Lenoir avait été vigneron avant d&rsquo;être pilote et que déjà il préférait les loopings aux tonneaux. Soudain, comme un miracle, trois Alphajets de l&rsquo;École de l&rsquo;Aviation de Chasse de la base aérienne 705 défilent au-dessus de l&rsquo;école et la mairie, puis font un second passage de nouveau sous les applaudissements le long de la Loire. Comme pour rappeler que Maxime Lenoir fut porté en triomphe devant la mairie après avoir produit ses merveilleux loopings sur Blériot XI à la mi-mai 1914.<br />
Une très intéressante exposition couvre une grande partie de la salle sur le Farman F.40, jadis très engagé dans la reconquête aérienne à Verdun. Les entreprises <a href="https://www.farman.fr/">Farman</a>, <a href="http://www.corvaisier.com/">Corvaisier</a> et <a href="https://www.galile.fr/">Galilé</a>, implantées à Joué-les-Tours apportent ainsi leur soutien. De même l&rsquo;association <a href="http://ailex.free.fr/index.htm">Ailex</a> et <a href="http://englishclassiqueaero.free.fr/">Classique Aéro</a> d&rsquo;Orbigny exposent un moteur Le Rhône 7A et plusieurs pièces de Blériot. La salle polyvalente a un air de petit musée du Bourget avec ces reliques d&rsquo;une aviation d&rsquo;un autre âge. Rien d&rsquo;étonnant à cela car <a href="https://www.museeairespace.fr/">le Musée de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace du Bourget</a> a apporté son concours grâce à quelques photos ô combien précieuses car elle permettent de deviner l&rsquo;importance de l&rsquo;aviation dans la victoire à Verdun. L&rsquo;après-midi est consacré aux expositions dont celle de la classe de Virginie Charbonnier, enseignante à Chargé, remarquablement enrichie par les uniformes, armes et ustensiles d&rsquo;époque pour revivre l&rsquo;atmosphère des tranchées et la conquête de l&rsquo;air vécue par le pionnier local de l&rsquo;aviation. Dans la collection de Claude Peyon, un témoignage poignant est exposé : un livret taché du sang de son grand-père alors sur le front, remis à sa grand-mère pour lui signifier son décès. Parmi toutes ces pièces de collection, on ne peut pas manquer la superbe maquette du SPAD VII « Trompe la Mort III » réalisée par l&rsquo;association <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230203065708/http://www.deltareflex.com/site/">Delta Reflex</a> présidée par Jean-Pierre Bézard en soutien à la BA 705 dans cette commémoration. C&rsquo;est avec un talent d&rsquo;orfèvre que Claude Bodier a monté le haubanage du biplan qui est maintenant confié à la commune.<br />
Puis vient le temps des conférences et débats. Didier Lecoq retrace la carrière de Maxime Lenoir. L&rsquo;auditoire est bien servi car le conférencier n&rsquo;est autre que le journaliste qui a le premier fait resurgir le héros de Chargé il y a plusieurs années. Enfin le lieutenant-colonel Romain Béthoux explique comment la guerre aérienne se faisait et comment elle a lieu de nos jours. Les spectateurs écoutent avec grand intérêt le témoignage de cet expert qui, avant de devenir le commandant de l&rsquo;École de l&rsquo;Aviation de Chasse, était tout de même le leader de la Patrouille de France. L&rsquo;auditoire écoute subjugué lorsqu&rsquo;il raconte comment des avions à réaction peuvent enchaîner des figures à seulement deux mètres de distance. Les questions pleuvent mais le brillant pilote a toujours la réponse.<br />
Tout au long de la journée, les familles emmènent les plus petits à la cabine du Jaguar exposée par le <a href="https://devenir-aviateur.fr/">CIRFA</a>. Dans la salle Julia Daudet (expositions) un projet de livre sur l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;aviation<a href="http://www.charge37.fr/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-10888" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-768x1024.jpg" alt="Commémoration Maxime Lenoir 11 novembre 2016 école" width="404" height="539" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-225x300.jpg 225w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-100x133.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-150x200.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-200x267.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-300x400.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-450x600.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-600x800.jpg 600w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161111MaximeLenoir_42_drl.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px" /></a> est présenté avec en seconde partie l&rsquo;histoire de Maxime Lenoir. Il sera publié prochainement. Sa sortie sera annoncée à la page <a href="/aviation/">http://airforces.fr/pall/</a>. Une brève présentation du <a href="/bia/">BIA-CAEA</a> est également faite pour ceux qui souhaitent s&rsquo;initier aux joies de l&rsquo;aéronautique. Avec le superbe chalet crêperie-buvette, ce 11 novembre à Chargé ressemble à un mini salon de l&rsquo;histoire et de l&rsquo;aviation. Même le soleil est de la partie. On n&rsquo;a jamais vu un 11 novembre de la sorte et cela pourrait bien, pourquoi pas, donner des idées à d&rsquo;autres communes. Encore faut-il avoir un pilote de cette étoffe dans sa ville pour réaliser un hommage de cette envergure. Il fut un des très rares pilotes à recevoir à la fois la grande médaille d&rsquo;or de l&rsquo;<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9ro-Club_de_France">Aéro-Club de France</a> et la médaille de guerre de l&rsquo;<a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6123520d/f8.item">Aero Club of America</a>. L&rsquo;enfant du pays est en quelque sorte revenu sur la terre de ses premiers exploits. Mais l&rsquo;histoire ne se termine pas vraiment. Des recherches sont toujours menées pour tenter d&rsquo;en savoir un peu plus. Et puis d&rsquo;autres belles surprises pourraient venir du ciel dans les années à venir, mais nous en saurons plus bientôt&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Toni Giacoia</span></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><figure id="attachment_10849" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10849" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://airforces.fr/2014/12/22/among-greatest-pilots-maxime-lenoir-destiny/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-10849" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net.jpg" alt="Maxime LENOIR parmi les as français as des as jeu de cartes" width="650" height="407" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net.jpg 650w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net-300x188.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net-100x63.jpg 100w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net-150x94.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net-200x125.jpg 200w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net-450x282.jpg 450w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/19161101_as7_nb_650_net-600x376.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-10849" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Maxime LENOIR au centre parmi les as français</em></figcaption></figure></p>
<h2>L’AS DES AS DE VERDUN 1916</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">25 octobre 2016 &#8211; (reprise de l&rsquo;article <a href="https://airforces.fr/2014/12/22/among-greatest-pilots-maxime-lenoir-destiny/">http://airforces.fr/2014/12/22/among-greatest-pilots-maxime-lenoir-destiny/</a>) Au plus fort de la bataille de Verdun, le lendemain de la reprise du fort de Douaumont, <strong>Maxime Lenoir</strong> devenait ce 25 octobre 1916 le 7e pilote français mort au combat sur son SPAD VII « <em><strong>Trompe la Mort</strong></em>« , mais il était aussi à ce moment-là:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>L’as des as de Verdun </strong>depuis 3 mois<br />
<strong>L&rsquo;As des as des Alliés morts au combat</strong><br />
<strong>Le 1<sup class="typo_exposants">er</sup> double as français mort au combat</strong><br />
Le 3<sup class="typo_exposants">e</sup> as au monde en nombre de victoires parmi les pilotes morts au combat<br />
Le 3<sup class="typo_exposants">e</sup> as français mort au combat après Pégoud et de Rochefort</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">D&rsquo;après les recherches, il semble qu&rsquo;il fut <strong>le premier pilote au monde à abattre un ballon de type Drachen</strong> en juin 1915. Il semblerait qu&rsquo;il fut <strong>le premier au monde à abattre un Gotha</strong> le 25 septembre 1916. Maxime Lenoir a beaucoup souffert de ce combat qui lui a laissé une blessure sur le coin de l’oeil gauche. A l’exception d’une poignée de pilotes valeureux, ni René Fonck, ni les autres as alliés ne seraient parvenus à abattre une telle forteresse volante en 1916. Seuls Guynemer, avec l’aide de Chainat auraient enregistré une victoire sur Gotha le 8 février 1917. Quant à Nungesser, le redoutable, il en aurait descendu deux. Enfin et surtout, Maxime Lenoir, l’as aux 11 victoires, a été un des premiers à être décoré de la Legion d’honneur, la Médaille militaire, la Croix de guerre avec 8 palmes et 9 citations. Chose tout à fait exceptionnelle, on lui a aussi décerné les médailles d’or de l’<strong> Aeroclub d’Amérique </strong>et de l’<strong>Aéroclub de France.</strong> Il a été le premier as avec entre autre Guynemer à recevoir de telles distinctions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Didier Lecoq (journaliste à La Nouvelle République, co-auteur de <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/LAviation-Militaire-en-Indre-Loire/dp/2367463387">L’Aviation militaire en Indre-et-Loire</a>) a le premier fait resurgir Maxime Lenoir, l’as oublié, ce ‘“<strong>Guynemer de Touraine</strong>”’ depuis au moins 2010. Sans lui, Lenoir serait toujours un as oublié.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maxime Lenoir, formé à Buc, exécutait à travers la France des représentations ‘“Looping the loop”’ sur Blériot XI depuis au moins le 7 février 1914.<br />
Lenoir avait 11 victoires (la plupart remportées sur Nieuport) lorsqu&rsquo;il fût porté disparu le 25/10/1916. En septembre 2014, Didier Lecoq (co-auteur de <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/LAviation-Militaire-en-Indre-Loire/dp/2367463387">L’Aviation militaire en Indre-et-Loire</a>) découvre que Lenoir a été abattu :</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Puis en novembre 2015 il reçoit l’information d’un historien collectionneur berlinois selon laquelle Lenoir aurait aussi reçu l’honneur d’une croix gravée par les allemands :</p>
<p> https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">What is more natural than looking back over major aviation innovations of the Great War today, the anniversary of the Armistice? Here is a very interesting video posted by the BBC on how the fighter pilots dealt with reconnaissance, bombing missions and dogfight techniques. Primitive flight controls are well explained as is the interest of performing missions with a triplane aircraft &#8211; three sets of wings are necessarily more narrow, providing the pilot with a better visual field.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the flimsy Blériot XI to Sopwiths and Fokkers, the first aces developed early methods that are always taught in fighter schools even though beyond-visual-range air combat has taken over since. Major Charles Tricornot de Rose was considered by many as the father of air fighting as early as 1914. Then as shown in this video, the German ace Oswald Boelcke laid out a first set of rules for dogfighting called the Dicta Boelcke. Pilots&rsquo; life expectancy was not measured in years but in weeks.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><figure id="attachment_8248" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8248" style="width: 535px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1001_lenoir537.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-8248 size-full" title="Maxime LENOIR - 11-victory ace in 1916" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1001_lenoir537.jpg" alt="Maxime LENOIR - 11-victory ace in 1916" width="535" height="349" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1001_lenoir537.jpg 535w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1001_lenoir537-300x196.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8248" class="wp-caption-text">Maxime LENOIR &#8211; 11-victory ace in 1916 &#8211; was not born in Paris but Chargé, in the Loire Valley</figcaption></figure></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">December 22, 2014</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maxime LENOIR would have been 126 years old today.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_8247" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8247" style="width: 374px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1115_je_sais_tout505.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-8247" title="Magazine cover - Lenoir, Navarre, Guynemer, and Nungesser - WW1 Aces" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1115_je_sais_tout505.jpeg" alt="Lenoir, Navarre, Guynemer, and Nungesser - WW1 Aces" width="374" height="540" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1115_je_sais_tout505.jpeg 505w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_1115_je_sais_tout505-208x300.jpeg 208w" sizes="(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8247" class="wp-caption-text">Lenoir, Navarre, Guynemer, and Nungesser &#8211; WW1 Aces</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He used to be one of the most renowned and talented pilots. He had been an aviation pioneer as he was among the very first pilots who performed the famous « looping the loop » aerobatic manoeuvre in the trail of Adolphe Pégoud between 1913 and 1914. He took part in a few air races, and a lot of air shows on his Blériot XI, nicknamed « Backjumper ». The local, national, and international press started to write articles about his prodigal sense of flying in the numerous airshows as the spectators cheered him every time he showed up. For instance, he was carried in triumph after he performed aerobatic manoeuvres above « La Girardière », the Girard family airfield in Chargé, his home village where up to 5,000 people were gathered to attend his air show in May 1914.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lenoir was rising to fame when Archduke Franz-Ferdinand was murdered and as the « European war » broke out, he joined up shortly after. In spite of his exceptional flying skills, Maxime Lenoir was unfortunately compelled to join the French cavalry. He then kept on requesting an assignment in the brand new military aeronautics recently created by General Hirschauer, and became a fighter pilot. However, he was first posted to the target-shooting department at the C18 flight, then he was transferred to the N23 flight as a fighter pilot. He waged a devastating war over the trenches, and against the Prussian aviation in fierce air battles over Verdun. He tested new weapons, and airplanes. He became one of the first pilots to shoot down a balloon. After a few victories in 1915, he became the N23&rsquo;s best fighter pilot in 1916 with 11 victories, and most decorated among prestigious names &#8211; Pinsard, Casale, Gilbert, de Beauchamp, Rochechouart de Mortemart, Brindejonc des Moulinais, Roland Garros, Pulpe (from Russia), Baumont, etc. He was the best ace in his flight, and even reached the top four French aces in 1916 as he remained in the top-two aces in the summer of that year.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_8295" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8295" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1914_0207_lenoir_looping551.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-8295" title="Maxime Lenoir looping the loop and airshows - early 1914" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1914_0207_lenoir_looping551-300x195.jpeg" alt="Maxime Lenoir looping the loop and airshows on Bleriot monoplane - early 1914" width="300" height="195" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1914_0207_lenoir_looping551-300x195.jpeg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1914_0207_lenoir_looping551.jpeg 551w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8295" class="wp-caption-text">Maxime Lenoir looping the loop and airshows &#8211; early 1914</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">According to German soldiers&rsquo; testimony, Lenoir was a very skillful and fearsome ace. They knew him well as they knew Navarre, Nungesser, Guynemer, Dorme, and Boelcke, of course. It is important to note that Mannock, Rickenbacker, Collishaw, Bishop, Löwenhardt, Little, Udet, McCudden, Fonck, Von Richthofen, Beauchamp-Proctor, and McLaren were not so famous at that time for some of them were not aces or did not have so many victories. Air war between 1914 and 1916 was totally different from 1917/1918. As Lenoir had trained at Blériot&rsquo;s Buc airfield, the best aerobatic flying school, he was able to cope with a jammed machine gun and dodge the enemy fire. Like a toreador, and in a very skillful way, he could lure the enemy pilots when his fellow pilots were under heavy fire. He was the best bullet dodger but took a lot of risks, too much maybe. He flew back to Vadelaincourt airfield with his aircraft crippled with bullets many times. He never hesitated to help his fellow pilots whenever he could since he dared to face up to several German airplanes in a row. He was deemed to be a very good friend, as well as salvation in the sky of Verdun. For instance, when he learnt that his friend Navarre (nicknamed « Verdun&rsquo;s sentinel ») had been shot down and seriously wounded on June 17th, 1916, he took off immediately. Alone, he made for the location where his friend had been downed, and dashed to an LVG C that he shot down without delay. He became so famous that either his name or his portrait featured on magazines, candy wrappers, and stamps, among the greatest aces in the hall of fame.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_8334" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8334" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_timbres_cr_trypt.gif"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-8334 size-medium" title="GUYNEMER, LENOIR, GARROS – 1916 stamps" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_timbres_cr_trypt540.jpeg" alt="GUYNEMER, LENOIR, GARROS – 1916 stamps" width="300" height="139" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8334" class="wp-caption-text">GUYNEMER, LENOIR, GARROS – 1916</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maxime Lenoir had more than a hundred war missions, which was considerable at that time. Wounded twice in air combat, he kept on dogfighting. He took off the day after the take back of Fort Douaumont, wrecked havoc by the battle. He was flying his legendary SPAD VII tagged « <strong>Trompe la mort III</strong> » which meant « death-dodger » on October 25, 1916 when he was reported MIA until much later when he was declared « Dead for France ». However, he has never been found despite extensive searching.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_8308" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8308" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_Bonbons_as434.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-8308 size-medium" title="DORME &amp; LENOIR - 1916 Candy Wrapper" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_Bonbons_as434-300x261.jpg" alt="DORME &amp; LENOIR - 1916 Candy Wrapper" width="300" height="261" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_Bonbons_as434-300x261.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_Bonbons_as434.jpg 434w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8308" class="wp-caption-text">DORME &amp; LENOIR &#8211; 1916 Candy Wrapper</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, this is why aviation history forgot him for almost a century. One of the most brilliant pilots had disappeared from World War 1 history. He remained all the same in a few books in English, and Jacques Mortane, the French journalist left several publications highlighting the role of Maxime Lenoir in aviation and air combat. Then nothing, almost nothing written on this pilot who was awarded the Legion d&rsquo;honneur, Médaille militaire, Croix de guerre with 8 palms, as well as the notorious Aeroclub of America, and Aeroclub of France gold medals!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Only two men kept his remembrance alive &#8211; first, Abel Anjorand who has always been a long-time friend of Lenoir&rsquo;s family. He compiled a set of documents and pictures to leave a trace of the village&rsquo;s ace to future generations. Didier Lecoq, a journalist and historian, has revealed Maxime Lenoir&rsquo;s feats on his website aeroplanedetouraine.fr for a few years. The WW1 ace could have stayed hidden for possibly a couple more decades without Didier Lecoq&rsquo;s outstanding work.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_8311" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8311" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1917_0405_lga_lenoir_brit605.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-8311" title="Lenoir congratulated by British officers" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1917_0405_lga_lenoir_brit605-300x204.jpeg" alt="French ace Maxime Lenoir congratulated by British officers" width="300" height="204" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1917_0405_lga_lenoir_brit605-300x204.jpeg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1917_0405_lga_lenoir_brit605.jpeg 605w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8311" class="wp-caption-text">Lenoir congratulated by British officers</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last not least, there is good news since the national and regional officials have officially recognized Maxime Lenoir as the WW1 hero for Tours and Indre-et-Loire in the remembrance operation called « 100 cities, 100 heroes, and 100 flags » since last summer. A ceremony to pay tribute to the local hero was held in the capital of Touraine, Place Anatole France on the left bank of the Loire river on Friday, September 19th, 2014. The Lenoir&rsquo;s family, their friends and some veterans attended the ceremony which ended in the majestic festival hall at the city hall.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Though he did not know, Senior Master Sergeant (Adjudant &#8211; OR-8) Maxime Lenoir was to be promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in 1917. His disappearance in history handbooks for almost a century remains a mystery. Moreover, avgeeks, online gamers as well as modelists used Lenoir&rsquo;s features « Trompe la mort III », « Max », and « Backjumper » tagged from markings just along with Guynemer&rsquo;s « Vieux Charles ». No wonder if Maxime Lenoir recovered his position in aviation history for at least two books featuring the former ace are to be published between 2015 and 2016 &#8211; and quite rightly so. Among the 100 WW1 heroes, Lenoir turns out to be the 5th ace in victories out of 21 aces, and the second « Dead for France » ace after&#8230; Guynemer!</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary</span>:</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">ACE OF ACES &#8211; VERDUN 1916</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Didier Lecoq (a historian and a journalist who is the co-author of <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/LAviation-Militaire-en-Indre-Loire/dp/2367463387">L’Aviation militaire en Indre-et-Loire</a>) was the first who had pointed out Maxime Lenoir, the forgotten ace, this ‘“<strong>Guynemer of the Loire Valley</strong>”’ since 2010. Without him, Lenoir would still be a forgotten ace. Only a few other people had remembered Maxime Lenoir&rsquo;s feats before &#8211; his family, and two friends of theirs, Abel Anjorand and Philippe Girard.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maxime Lenoir, who had trained in Buc, had been performing « Looping the loop » on his « Backjumper » Blériot XI throughout France in airshows since February 7, 1914.<br />
Lenoir scored 11 victories and was reported missing in action on October 25, 1916. Didier Lecoq found out in September 2014 that Lenoir was shot down:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then in November 2015, he was reported from a historian in Berlin that the Germans erected a printed cross on Lenoir&rsquo;s tomb in his honour.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/</p>
<p>For the record, <strong>Maxime Lenoir</strong> was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">as of October 25, 1916</span> :</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>Verdun ace of aces </strong>for 3 months from June till October 1916<br />
<strong>Ace of aces among the Allies killed in action</strong>; until RFC Cpt Albert Ball&rsquo;s death on May 6, 1917<br />
<strong>1st French double ace killed in action</strong><br />
2nd double ace among the Allies killed in action<br />
3rd in victories among all the pilots killed in action<br />
3rd French ace killed in action after Pégoud and de Rochefort<br />
5th double ace in the world killed in action<br />
7th French pilot killed in action<br />
14th ace in the world killed in action</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;">He may have been the <strong>first pilot in the world who shot down a Drachen-type balloon</strong> on June 15, 1915 &#8211; to be confirmed as we are still searching. That operation was highly risky since those sausage-balloons were fiercely defended by ground-based air defenses. Reginald Warneford, a brave British pilot had downed a Zeppelin 8 days before. Shooting down a Zeppelin was a different business &#8211; an altitude challenge to make it short. On the one hand, Warneford became famous for this feat. He was awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross and the Légion d&rsquo;Honneur. On the other hand, Lenoir&rsquo;s Drachen victory was barely noticed. It was recognized several months later and few people figured out how fierce a battle it involved.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;">He would have been the <strong>first pilot in the world who shot down a heavy bomber Gotha</strong> on September 25, 1916. Only a handful of gallant pilots managed to shoot down such a flying fortress. Neither Fonck, nor the other allied aces downed a Gotha. Only Guynemer, helped by Chainat recorded a victory, a Gotha claimed on February 8, 1917. Nungesser, the redoubtable ace, shot down two Gothas. Maxime Lenoir suffered a lot from that air combat which left him a wound or a bruise to the edge of his left eye.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;">Among those killed in action, according to the number of victories, Lenoir was <strong>number 1 among the allied aces</strong> and the 3rd in the world. This is why his MIA spread around the world in the press.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The German ace Oswald Boelcke died three days later, on October 28, 1916 with 40 victories. The French recorded two major losses in 1917 :<br />
René Dorme (23 victories) was KIA on May 25, 1917;<br />
Georges Guynemer was KIA on September 11, 1917.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">(as of January 31, 2016)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Step by step, as it is being confirmed, it turns out that Maxime Lenoir may have been the <strong>Ace of aces out of Verdun sky in 1916</strong>. At least between July and October 1916 while the French Poilus were through a glorious stage, regaining Fort Douaumont, then Fort Vaux. There is now a better understanding of that German prisoners claims about Lenoir&rsquo;s attacks in interrogations. After checking, Lenoir was used to flying due north beyond Verdun, overhead Douaumont and beyond more often than <strong>Nungesser</strong> for instance. Perhaps it was why his SPAD VII was marked « <strong>TROMPE LA MORT III</strong> » &#8211; Death-dodger III &#8211; on his fuselage. This confirms Jacques Mortane&rsquo;s articles which praised Lenoir as one of the best aces at that time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obviously, Maxime Lenoir also flew a Nieuport 17 in late 1916 equipped with an <strong>Éclair propeller</strong> from <strong>Marcel Dassault</strong> (Bloch at that time). The plane must have been very maneuverable at that time. It is the first ti<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-10333 alignright" src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1917-aecf-M&eacute;daille-or2.jpg" alt="Médaille d'or de l'Aéroclub de France 1917 - Gold Medal" width="263" height="263" />me we have seen an Éclair propeller mounted on this type of aeroplane. The picture cannot be published at this time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Last but not least, Maxime Lenoir, the 11-victory ace, was awarded the Legion d&rsquo;honneur, Médaille militaire, Croix de guerre with 8 palms, as well as the notorious<strong> Aeroclub of America, and Aeroclub of France gold medals!</strong> He was the first ace with Guynemer and a few others to be awarded these awards!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Postscript: it is the second article this blog has tagged « Maxime Lenoir » as another post featuring his name had been posted here: <a title="WW1 aces video featuring Maxime Lenoir" href="/2009/11/11/all-the-ww1-aces-of-the-french-air-force-23/">http://airforces/2009/11/11/all-the-ww1-aces-of-the-french-air-force-23/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">En français</span>:</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_8313" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8313" style="width: 213px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_lenoir_helice3.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-8313" title="Maxime Lenoir &amp; Nieuport - summer 1916" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_lenoir_helice3-213x300.jpg" alt="Maxime Lenoir &amp; Nieuport - summer 1916" width="213" height="300" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_lenoir_helice3-213x300.jpg 213w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1916_lenoir_helice3.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8313" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Maxime Lenoir &amp; Nieuport &#8211; summer 1916</em></figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maxime LENOIR aurait eu 126 ans aujourd&rsquo;hui.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Il fut autrefois un des plus connus et talentueux pilotes de sa génération. Il avait été pionnier de l&rsquo;aviation alors qu&rsquo;il faisait partie de ces quelques pilotes capable d&rsquo;accomplir des boucles en voltige à la suite d&rsquo;Adolphe Pégoud entre 1913 et 1914. Il s&rsquo;engagea dans quelques courses d&rsquo;avions et de nombreux meetings aériens sur son Blériot XI surnommé  »Backjumper ». La presse locale, nationale et internationale commença à publier des articles sur son sens prodigue du pilotage dans les nombreux meetings aériens étant donné que les spectateurs l&rsquo;acclamaient à chaque fois qu&rsquo;il se produisait. Par exemple, il fut porté en triomphe après avoir avoir accompli des figures acrobatiques au-dessus du terrain d&rsquo;aviation de la famille Girard, « La Girardière » à Chargé son village natal en Indre-et-Loire où jusqu&rsquo;à 5000 personnes s&rsquo;étaient rassemblées pour assister à son show aérien en mai 1914.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Alors que la notoriété de Lenoir était croissante, l&rsquo;archiduc François-Ferdinand fut assassiné et la  »Guerre européenne » éclata. Il s&rsquo;engagea dans l&rsquo;armée peu de temps après. Malgré ses compétences exceptionnelles en tant que pilote, Maxime Lenoir fut malheureusement contraint de rejoindre la cavalerie française. Il continua ensuite à demander une mutation vers l&rsquo;Aéronautique militaire récemment créée par le général Hirschauer et devint pilote de chasse. Toutefois il fut d&rsquo;abord affecté au réglage du tir à l&rsquo;escadrille C18, puis il fut affecté à l&rsquo;escadrille N23 comme pilote de chasse. Il mena une guerre terrible au dessus des tranchées et engagea des combats aériens acharnés contre l&rsquo;aviation prussienne au dessus de Verdun. Il devint un des premiers pilotes à abattre un ballon. Après quelques victoires en 1915, il devint le meilleur pilote de chasse de la N23 en 1916 avec 11 victoires, ainsi que le plus décoré parmi des noms prestigieux : Pinsard, Casale, Gilbert, de Beauchamp, Rochechouart de Mortemart, Brindejonc des Moulinais, Roland Garros, Pulpe (venant de Russie), Baumont, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">D&rsquo;après des témoignages de soldats allemand, Lenoir était un as très adroit et redoutable. Ils le connaissaient comme ils connaissaient Navarre, Nungesser, Guynemer, Dorme et bien sûr Boelcke. Il est important de rappeler que Mannock, Rickenbacker, Collishaw, Bishop, Löwenhardt, Little, Udet, McCudden, Fonck, Von Richthofen, Beauchamp-Proctor, and McLaren n&rsquo;étaient pas aussi célèbres à ce moment là car certains d&rsquo;entre eux n&rsquo;étaient pas des as ou ne comptaient pas autant de victoires. La guerre aérienne entre 1914 et 1916 était totalement différente de celle menée entre 1917 et 1918. Comme Lenoir avait été formé au terrain d&rsquo;aviation de Buc chez Blériot, la meilleure école d&rsquo;acrobatie aérienne, il parvenait à échapper au feu ennemi lorsque sa mitrailleuse s&rsquo;enrayait. Comme un toréador et de façon très habile, il savait comment leurrer les aéroplanes ennemis lorsque ses camarades pilotes subissaient un feu nourri. C&rsquo;était le roi de l&rsquo;esquive mais il prenait beaucoup de risques, trop peut-être. Il revint plusieurs fois au terrain de Vadelaincourt son avion criblé de balles. Il n&rsquo;hésitait jamais à voler au secours de ses camarades pilotes à chaque fois qu&rsquo;il le pouvait puisqu&rsquo;il osait faire face à plusieurs appareils allemands d&rsquo;affilée. Il avait la réputation d&rsquo;être un très bon ami ainsi qu&rsquo;un véritable salut dans le ciel de Verdun. Par exemple, lorsqu&rsquo;il apprit que son ami Navarre (surnommé  »la sentinelle de Verdun ») avait été abattu et grièvement blessé le 17 juin 1916, il décolla immédiatement. Seul, il se rendit sur les lieux où son ami avait été abattu et fonça sur un LVG C qu&rsquo;il descendit sans tarder. Il devint si célèbre que son nom ou son portrait figurait sur des magazines, des emballages de bonbons et des vignettes parmi les plus grands as au temple de la renommée.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Maxime Lenoir totalisait plus d&rsquo;une centaine de missions de guerre, ce qui était considérable à cette époque. Blessé à deux reprises en combat aérien, il continua à livrer des combats aériens. Il décolla le lendemain de la reprise du fort de Douaumont ravagé par la bataille. Alors qu&rsquo;il était en mission de guerre le 25 octobre 1916 lors de la reprise de Fort Douaumont sur son légendaire SPAD VII marqué du surnom  »<em>Trompe la mort III</em> » il fut porté absent ce soir là puis disparu et ce n&rsquo;est que bien plus tard qu&rsquo;il fut déclaré  »Mort pour la France ». On ne l&rsquo;a cependant jamais retrouvé malgré de multiples recherches.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Malheureusement, voilà pourquoi l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;aviation l&rsquo;a oublié pendant presque un siècle. L&rsquo;un des plus brillants pilotes avait disparu de l&rsquo;histoire de la première guerre mondiale. Son souvenir subsistait tout de même dans quelques livres en anglais et Jacques Mortane, le journaliste français laissa plusieurs publications soulignant le rôle de Maxime Lenoir dans l&rsquo;aviation et le combat aérien. Puis plus rien, on n&rsquo;écrivit presque rien sur ce pilote qui fut décoré de la Légion d&rsquo;honneur, de la Médaille militaire, la Croix de guerre, ainsi que lui furent attribué les prestigieuses médailles d&rsquo;or de l&rsquo;Aéroclub d&rsquo;Amérique et de l&rsquo;Aéroclub de France!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Trois hommes seulement, ont su conserver son souvenir intact. Abel Anjorand qui a toujours été un ami de longue date de la famille Lenoir. Il a compilé toute une série de documents et d&rsquo;images pour laisser une trace de l&rsquo;as du village à de futures générations. Philippe Girard se souvient des histoires de sa famille qui a reçu Maxime Lenoir et son Blériot XI dans leur ferme de la Girardière en mai 1914. Didier Lecoq, journaliste et historien révèle depuis quelques années les exploits de Maxime Lenoir sur son site aeroplanedetouraine.fr . L&rsquo;as de la première guerre mondiale aurait pu rester caché pendant peut-être encore quelques décennies sans le magnifique travail de Didier Lecoq.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Il y a enfin une bonne nouvelle puisque depuis l&rsquo;été dernier, les responsables nationaux et régionaux reconnaissent officiellement Maxime Lenoir comme le héros de la Grande guerre pour la ville de Tours et l&rsquo;Indre-et-Loire dans l&rsquo;opération de commémoration  »100 villes, 100 héros, 100 drapeaux ». Une cérémonie pour rendre hommage au héros local s&rsquo;est déroulée dans la capitale de Touraine, place Anatole France sur la rive gauche de la Loire le vendredi 19 septembre 2014. La famille Lenoir, leurs amis et des anciens combattants ont assisté à la cérémonie qui s&rsquo;acheva dans la majestueuse salle des fêtes de l&rsquo;hôtel de ville.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Bien qu&rsquo;il ne le sut pas, l&rsquo;adjudant Maxime Lenoir devait être promu sous-lieutenant en 1917. Sa disparition des manuels d&rsquo;histoire pendant presque un siècle demeure un mystère. Ce qui est encore plus étrange, c&rsquo;est que des fans d&rsquo;aviation, des joueurs en ligne ainsi que des modélistes ont utilisé des symboles de Lenoir comme  »Trompe la mort III »,  »Max » et  »Backjumper » tirés pour certains de décalcomanies accompagnant le  »Vieux Charles » de Guynemer. Ce n&rsquo;est pas étonnant que Lenoir retrouve sa place dans l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;aviation car au moins deux livres évoquant l&rsquo;ancien as doivent paraître entre 2015 et 2016 et fort justement. Parmi les 100 héros de la Grande guerre, il s&rsquo;avère que Lenoir est le 5ème as par le nombre de victoires sur un total de 21 aviateurs et il est dans cette liste le second as  »Mort pour la France » juste après… Guynemer !</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">En résumé:</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">L&rsquo;AS DES AS DE VERDUN 1916</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Didier Lecoq (historien et journaliste à La Nouvelle République, co-auteur de <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/LAviation-Militaire-en-Indre-Loire/dp/2367463387">L&rsquo;Aviation militaire en Indre-et-Loire</a>) a le premier fait resurgir Maxime Lenoir, l’as oublié, ce &lsquo;“<strong>Guynemer de Touraine</strong>”&rsquo; depuis au moins 2010. Sans lui, Lenoir serait toujours un as oublié. Avant lui, peu de gens se souvenaient des exploits de Maxime Lenoir: sa famille et deux de leurs amis: Abel Anjorand et Philippe Girard.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Maxime Lenoir, formé à Buc, exécutait à travers la France des représentations &lsquo;“Looping the loop”&rsquo; sur Blériot XI depuis au moins le 7 février 1914.<br />
Lenoir avait 11 victoires et fût porté disparu le 25/10/1916. En septembre 2014, Didier Lecoq découvre que Lenoir a été abattu :</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Puis en novembre 2015 il reçoit l’information d&rsquo;un historien collectionneur berlinois selon laquelle Lenoir aurait aussi reçu l’honneur d’une croix gravée par les allemands :</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> https://aeroplanedetouraine.fr/</p>
<p>Pour mémoire, <strong>Maxime Lenoir</strong> était <span style="text-decoration: underline;">au 25 octobre 1916</span>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong>L&rsquo;as des as de Verdun </strong>depuis 3 mois<br />
<strong>As des as parmi les Alliés morts au combat</strong>, jusqu&rsquo;au 6 mai 1917 (Albert Ball)<br />
<strong>1er double as français mort au combat</strong><br />
2e double as parmi les Alliés morts au combat<br />
3e as au monde en nombre de victoires parmi les pilotes morts au combat<br />
3e as français mort au combat après Pégoud et de Rochefort<br />
5e double-as au monde mort au combat<br />
7e pilote français mort au combat<br />
14e as au monde mort au combat</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;">Il a peut-être été <strong>le premier pilote au monde à abattre un ballon de type Drachen</strong> en juin 1915. (à confirmer, cherchons toujours) Cette opération était hautement périlleuse tant ces ballons étaient bien défendus par des batteries sol-air. Reginald Warneford, un vaillant pilote britannique avait abattu un Zeppelin 8 jours plus tôt. Descendre un Zeppelin était une toute autre affaire &#8211; en très bref, il s&rsquo;agissait de prendre l&rsquo;ascendant en termes d&rsquo;altitude. D&rsquo;un côté de la Manche, Warneford devint célèbre pour cet exploit. Il a été décoré de la Victoria Cross et de la Légion d&rsquo;Honneur pour cette première. De l&rsquo;autre côté de la Manche, le Drachen abattu par Lenoir fût à peine mentionné. Il ne fut reconnu que bien plus tard (plusieurs mois) car peu de gens pouvaient s&rsquo;imaginer quel âpre combat aérien cela impliquait.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;">Il aurait accompli l&rsquo;exploit d&rsquo;être <strong>le premier au monde à abattre un Gotha</strong> le 25 septembre 1916. A l&rsquo;exception d&rsquo;une poignée de pilotes valeureux, ni René Fonck, ni les autres as alliés ne seraient parvenus à abattre une telle forteresse volante. Seuls Guynemer, avec l&rsquo;aide de Chainat aurait enregistré une victoire sur Gotha le 8 février 1917. Quant à Nungesser, le redoutable, il en aurait descendu deux. Maxime Lenoir a beaucoup souffert de ce combat qui lui a laissé une blessure sur le coin de l&rsquo;oeil gauche.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;">Parmi les morts au combat, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">au nombre de victoires</span>, il était <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>n°1 du côté des alliés</strong></span> et le 3e as au monde, ce qui explique l’écho de sa disparition dans la presse internationale.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">L’allemand Oswald Boelcke est mort au combat 3 jours plus tard, le 28 octobre 1916 avec tout de même 40 victoires. Côté français, deux pertes au moins aussi importantes en 1917 :<br />
&#8211; Le français René Dorme (23 victoires) est mort au combat le 25 mai 1917<br />
&#8211; Georges Guynemer est mort au combat le 11 septembre 1917.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cela se confirme peu à peu, il apparaît que Maxime Lenoir était probablement l’<strong>As des as du ciel de Verdun en 1916</strong>. Du moins entre juillet et octobre 1916 dans une période victorieuse française (reconquête de Douaumont puis Vaux) On comprend mieux les témoignages des prisonniers allemands lors d’interrogatoires. Après vérifications, Lenoir allait toujours plus au nord de Verdun, au-dessus de Douaumont et au-delà, bien plus souvent que <strong>Nungesser</strong> par exemple. D’où peut-être une part de son surnom sur son fuselage « <strong>TROMPE LA MORT III</strong> ». Ceci confirme les articles de Jacques Mortane qui considérait Lenoir comme un des meilleurs as de l&rsquo;époque.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Visiblement Maxime Lenoir volait aussi fin 1916 sur un Nieuport 17 modifié avec <strong>hélice Éclair</strong> de chez <strong>Marcel Dassault</strong> (Bloch à l’époque). L’appareil devait être extrêmement maniable pour l’époque. C&rsquo;est la première fois que nous voyons une hélice Éclair sur ce type d&rsquo;appareil. On ne peut pas publier la photo pour le moment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Enfin et surtout, Maxime Lenoir, l&rsquo;as aux 11 victoires, a été un des premiers à être décoré de la Legion d&rsquo;honneur, la Médaille militaire, la Croix de guerre avec 8 palmes. Chose tout à fait exceptionnelle, on lui a aussi décerné les médailles d&rsquo;or de l&rsquo;<strong> Aeroclub d&rsquo;Amérique et de l&rsquo;Aeroclub de France.</strong> Il a été le premier as avec entre autre Guynemer à recevoir de telles distinctions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Post-scriptum: c&rsquo;est la seconde fois que Maxime Lenoir figure dans un article de ce blog: <a title="Vidéo sur les as de la première guerre mondiale citant Maxime Lenoir" href="/2009/11/11/all-the-ww1-aces-of-the-french-air-force-23/">http://airforces.fr/2009/11/11/all-the-ww1-aces-of-the-french-air-force-23/</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>December 1, 2012</p>
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<p><figure id="attachment_7630" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7630" style="width: 399px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/savoie_003c.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-7630 " title="savoie_003b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_003b.jpg" alt="Mirage F1CR Upside down - ER 02/033 &quot;Savoy&quot;, SAL 6 &quot;Rhine Gull&quot; - Recce from 1912 till 2012" width="399" height="600" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_003b.jpg 399w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_003b-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7630" class="wp-caption-text">Mirage F1CR Upside down         &#8211;         ER 02/033 « Savoy », SAL 6 « Rhine Gull »       &#8211;       <em>Recce from 1912 till 2012</em></figcaption></figure></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The French Air Force 2/33 « Savoie » Reconnaissance Squadron celebrated its centenary on June 22, 2012</strong>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The centennial was presided over by General de Rousiers, a former 2/33 pilot in the 1980s, who is now the permanent Chairman of the European Union Military Committee (CEUMC).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This ceremony was held at BA 118 FAF Station in Mont de Marsan, in the southwest of France. It was more particularly dedicated to its oldest flight (<em>escadrille</em> in French) &#8211; <strong>SAL 6</strong>, which means <strong>Salmson</strong> aircraft, and 6 as the sixth flight created in the French Army Aviation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This creation occurred in December 1912, but traces of its previous existence might be found as early as September 1912, and maybe earlier. I will keep you posted if necessary.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The centennial had begun earlier on Friday 22nd of June in the morning with the presentation of the Rhine Gull insignia to the new SAL 6 Flight members.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some of the senior members invited &#8211; all veterans &#8211; could see that their traditions were kept up at a high level as the candidates had to go through various « ordeals » to deserve their brand new badges.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The SAL 6 flight&rsquo;s emblem consists of a white bird, a Rhine gull clad with a blue circle as shown hereafter:</p>
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<p><figure id="attachment_7619" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7619" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAL_06_056b.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-7619" title="SAL_06_056b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAL_06_056b-300x186.jpg" alt="ER 2/33 Savoie reconnaissance squadron, SAL 6 &quot;Rhine Gull&quot; Flight Emblem" width="300" height="186" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7619" class="wp-caption-text">ER 2/33 Savoie Recce Squadron, SAL 6 « Rhine Gull » Emblem</figcaption></figure></p>
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<p><figure id="attachment_7620" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7620" style="width: 331px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAL_6_063b.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-7620" title="SAL_6_063b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAL_6_063b-300x103.jpg" alt="ER 2/33 Savoie recce squadron, SAL 6 &quot;Rhine Gull&quot; Flight Emblem" width="331" height="113" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAL_6_063b-300x103.jpg 300w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAL_6_063b.jpg 555w" sizes="(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7620" class="wp-caption-text">ER 2/33 Savoie, SAL 6 « Rhine Gull » Emblem</figcaption></figure></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">It is assumed that the origins of the SAL 6 flight emblem date back to 1920.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><center></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_7679" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7679" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/savoie_002.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-7679" title="savoie_002b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/savoie_002b.jpg" alt="Mirage F1CR and previous ER 2/33 SAL 6 aircraft" width="586" height="190" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/savoie_002b.jpg 650w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/savoie_002b-300x97.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7679" class="wp-caption-text">Mirage F1CR and previous ER 2/33 SAL 6 aircraft</figcaption></figure></p>
<p></center>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_7681" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7681" style="width: 645px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/20120622F1CRdroitc.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-7681" title="20120622F1CRdroitc" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/20120622F1CRdroitc-1024x216.jpg" alt="Mirage F1CR starboard and previous ER 2/33 SAL 6 aircraft" width="645" height="136" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7681" class="wp-caption-text">Mirage F1CR starboard and previous ER 2/33 SAL 6 aircraft</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SAL 6 was disbanded for almost a year in Germany from April 10, 1919.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The flight was created anew in Germany into the 16th flight of the 33rd Aerial Observation Regiment (33eme RAO). That new flight would have kept the SAL 6, C 6, and D6 traditions since the calling SAL 6 remained along with 16th flight (16ème escadrille) for that decade. However, it would have had a new batch of pilots, mechanics, and aircraft.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_7623" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7623" style="width: 266px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/savoie_001c.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-7623" title="savoie_001b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_001b.jpg" alt="Mirage F1CR - ER 02/033 Savoie, Escadrille SAL 6 &quot;Mouette du Rhin&quot; en extrados de dessus - 100eme anniversaire" width="266" height="400" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_001b.jpg 266w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_001b-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7623" class="wp-caption-text">Mirage F1CR &#8211; Recce Squadron ER 02/033 « Savoy », Flight SAL 6 « Rhine gull » &#8211; 100th anniversary</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Among those aircraft, there would have been a SAL 70 flight aircraft &#8211; a Salmson 2A2 &#8211; on which the SAL 70 emblem was painted. It was a white gull with a blue disk on its background.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There were many Rhine gulls flying around where SAL 6 stationed from 1920 until 1930 (<a title="Gossenheim map" href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/gossenheim/@50.018329,9.783325,8z/data=!4m2!2m1!4b1?hl=en&amp;dg=dbrw&amp;newdg=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gossenheim</a>; <a title="Krefeld map" href="https://www.google.fr/maps/search/krefeld/@51.337476,6.586304,10z/data=!4m2!2m1!4b1?hl=fr&amp;dg=dbrw&amp;newdg=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Krefeld</a>; and <a title="Bochum map" href="https://www.google.fr/maps/search/Bochum,+Allemagne/@51.481383,7.229004,6z?hl=fr&amp;dg=dbrw&amp;newdg=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bochum</a>), and blue was the color of reconnaissance.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As SAL 6 had to remain in the Rhineland area, and its main mission consisted in performing reconnaissance missions, that SAL 70 Salmson aircraft turned out to be a timely addition.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It was therefore decided to take the SAL 70 symbol to be slightly changed into a Rhine gull surrounded by a blue circle.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the early years, the first SAL6 Flight marking would have looked like this one below, and it may have featured an Egyptian Eagle:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_7677" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7677" style="width: 150px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mcbrbsal6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-7677" title="mcbrbsal6" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mcbrbsal6-150x150.jpg" alt="Original ER 2/33 Savoie D6, C6, and SAL6 Aircraft Marking" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mcbrbsal6-150x150.jpg 150w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mcbrbsal6-25x25.jpg 25w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7677" class="wp-caption-text">Original D6, C6, and SAL6 Aircraft Marking</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_7631" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7631" style="width: 641px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/savoie_004c.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-7631" title="savoie_004b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_004b.jpg" alt="Mirage F1CR above clouds - ER 02/033 &quot;Savoie&quot;, SAL 6 &quot;Mouette du Rhin&quot; - &quot;100 ans de Reco&quot; !" width="641" height="427" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_004b.jpg 641w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/savoie_004b-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7631" class="wp-caption-text">Mirage F1CR above clouds &#8211; ER 02/033 « Savoie », SAL 6 « Mouette du Rhin » &#8211; « 100 ans de Reco » !</figcaption></figure></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_7665" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7665" style="width: 373px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20120622_100_ans_SAL_06_Mouette-135c.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-7665" title="20120622_100_ans_SAL_06_Mouette 135b" src="/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120622_100_ans_SAL_06_Mouette-135b.jpg" alt="Mirage F1CR fin - 02033 SAVOIE Recce Sqn" width="373" height="233" srcset="https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120622_100_ans_SAL_06_Mouette-135b.jpg 373w, https://airforces.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120622_100_ans_SAL_06_Mouette-135b-300x187.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7665" class="wp-caption-text">Mirage F1CR fin &#8211; 02033 SAVOIE Recce Sqn</figcaption></figure></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">General Charles de Gaule, who was in exile in the United Kingdom, named Colonel Valin as Commander-in-Chief of the Free French Air Force (FAFL &#8211; Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres) during the Second World War.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The aviator made a decision of giving its squadrons a French region name for each of them in order to address a strong message to the Vichy regime which collaborated with Hitler, and the Axis powers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a consequence, the Reconnaissance Group GR 2/33 was named Savoie on the 3rd of November 1943, and it has kept this name so far.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is why you can see the Savoy&rsquo;s flag on various SAL 6 aircraft. ER 2/33 was stationed near Strasbourg between 1960 and 1994. This is why the Savoy&rsquo;s red flag covered with the white Saint John&rsquo;s Cross (Croix de St Jean) was painted on a huge concrete slab, on a patch of lawn, in the middle of the squadron area, close to the 2/33 photo hangar at <a title="Strasbourg Airport" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entzheim_Airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Strasbourg-Entzheim</a> <a title="FRENCH AIR FORCE" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Air_Force" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FAF</a> Station. This is why this flag has been billowing above the new squadron facilities since early 2012. This is also why an official twinning was organized between this squadron, and the General Council of <a title="Savoie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoie">Savoie</a>.<br />
As I started to look up through various sources on squadrons &amp; flights history, it turned out that SAL 6 Rhine Gull Flight is a very old unit. Probably <strong>one of the oldest  in the world</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<h3 id="squadrons" style="text-align: justify;">According to the chart here below, <strong>ER 02033 Savoie, and more particularly SAL 6 Rhine Gull would be the third oldest reconnaissance squadron or flight in the world</strong> as of late 2012:</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table border="0" width="615" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">Rank.</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">NAME</p>
</td>
<td colspan="2" width="108">
<p align="center">From</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">ROLE</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">SQUADRON<br />
(December 2012)</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">COUNTRY<br />
Current station</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">1 ?</p>
</td>
<td width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 29</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1912</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Electronic Warfare<br />
Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EEA 54 Dunkerque</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">2 ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" width="75">
<p align="center">No 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1878</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Balloon Company</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 1 RAF</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Cottesmore<br />
(N°1 RAF<br />
should reform<br />
in late 2012)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 13</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1912</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Royal Flying Corps</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center"><strong>Aug ?</strong></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center"><strong>1914</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center"><strong>Heavier than air</strong><br />
Reconnaissance &amp;<br />
Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">3 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 13</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1912</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 2 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Marham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">3 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 3</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 13</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 3 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Coningsby</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 3</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun ?</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight<br />
(Guynemer&rsquo;s flight)</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/2 Cigognes</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Dijon</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">6</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 104</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">ET 2/61<br />
Franche Comte</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Orleans</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">7 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 4</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1912</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 4 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Wittering</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">7 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 22</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/7 Provence</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Saint Dizier</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">9 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center"><strong>SAL 6</strong></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1912</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center"><strong>ER 2/33 Savoie</strong></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">9 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 8</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec 10</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETL 1/62 Vercors</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Creil</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">11 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 11</p>
</td>
<td width="61">
<p align="center">Feb ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1913</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ER 2/33 Savoie</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">11?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 14</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1913</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 1/64 Bearn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">13 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 103</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/2 Cigognes</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Dijon</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">13 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 17</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EH 1/67 Pyrenees</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Cazaux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">15 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">1 RS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">1 RS</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Beale,<br />
California</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">16 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">CFS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Training Unit</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">CFS</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
East Sale</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">17 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">1 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 16</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1913</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">2 Wing Tactique</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">BELGIUM,<br />
Florennes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">18 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 18</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 1/64 Bearn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">18 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 19</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">ET 2/61<br />
Franche Comte</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Orleans</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">18 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">VB 101</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 1/61 Touraine</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Orleans</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">21 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 5 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Waddington</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">22 ?</p>
</td>
<td width="75">
<p align="center">SPA BI 20<br />
or MF 20</p>
</td>
<td width="61">
<p align="center">Dec ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1913</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Electronic Warfare<br />
Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EEA 54 Dunkerque</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">23</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 6</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 31</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1914</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 6 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Leuchars</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1914</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 7 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Odiham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">25 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 22</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 6</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air Refuelling Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">GRV 93 Bretagne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Istres</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">26 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 69</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 3/11 Corse</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Republic of<br />
Djibouti</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">27</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/2 Cigognes</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Dijon</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/91 Gascogne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Saint Dizier</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 203</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1914</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter OCU</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 203 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Valley</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 31</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETD 2/7 Argonne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">31</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 33</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">ED 1/33 Belfort<br />
Drone Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Cognac</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">32</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 202</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 17</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">SAR Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 202 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Valley</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">33</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 102</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/3 Champagne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">34</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 9</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec 8</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1914</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 9 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Marham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">35</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 8</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">AEW Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 8 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Waddington</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">36</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 38</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 8</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 3/30 Lorraine</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Al Dhafra, UAE</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">37</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 13</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 10</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 13 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Marham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">38 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 17</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 17 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Coningsby</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">39 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 14</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 3</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">ISTAR Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 14 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Waddington</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">40 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 11</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 14</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 11 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Coningsby</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">40 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 12</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 14</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 12 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Lossiemouth</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">42 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 99</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EH 3/67 Parisis</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Villacoublay</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">43 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 15 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Lossiemouth</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">44 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA BI 55</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 3</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETL 1/62 Vercors</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Creil</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">45 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 88</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 3/11 Corse</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Republic of<br />
Djibouti</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">45 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 97</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/30<br />
Normandie-Niemen</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">47 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 30 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Brize Norton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">48 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 48</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 29</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETD 2/7 Argonne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">49 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 44</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 4</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 3/3 Ardennes</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">50 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 113</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 1/61 Touraine</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Orleans</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">51 ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">102 RQS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1908</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Balloon Company</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">1st Aero Company</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Westhampton<br />
Beach, New York</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center"><strong>May ?</strong></p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center"><strong>1915</strong></p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center"><strong>Heavier than air</strong><br />
Rescue Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">102nd Rescue Sqn</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">51 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 95</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/3 Navarre</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">53 ?</p>
</td>
<td width="75">
<p align="center">C 53 or<br />
SPA BI 53</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 2</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ER 2/33 Savoie</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">53 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 56</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 3/30 Lorraine</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Al Dhafra, UAE</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">55 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA BI 54</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air Refuelling Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">GRV 93 Bretagne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Istres</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">56 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 57</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 11</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EE 5/2 Cote d&rsquo;or</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Dijon</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">56 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 18</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 11</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">SAR Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 18 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Odiham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">58 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">2 ARS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 12</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air Refuelling Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">2 ARS</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, McGuire<br />
-Dix-Lakehurst,<br />
New Jersey</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">59 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 58</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 20</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">AEW Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">36th EDCA</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Avord</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">60</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 96</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/4 La Fayette</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Istres</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">61</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 93</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul/Sep?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/30<br />
Normandie-Niemen</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">62</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 65</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EE 5/2 Cote d&rsquo;or</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Dijon</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">63</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 62</p>
</td>
<td width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 11<br />
Apr 25?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/3 Navarre</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">64 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 22</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">SAR Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 22 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Valley</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">65 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 67</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 17</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/3 Champagne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">66 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">F 118</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 3/61 Poitou</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Orleans</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">66 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">F 119</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 3/61 Poitou</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Orleans</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">68</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 21</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 24 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Brize Norton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">69</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 31</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 11</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 31 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Marham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">70</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 91</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 13</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/30<br />
Normandie-Niemen</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">71</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 66</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/91 Gascogne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Saint Dizier</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">72</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 27</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 21</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 27 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Odiham</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">73</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 28 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Benson</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">73</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 29</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">OCU</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 29 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Coningsby</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">75</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 1 (AFC)</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 1 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Amberley</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">76</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 32</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 12</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">VIP Transport Sqn<br />
« The Royal Squadron »</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 32 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Northolt</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">76</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 33</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 12</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 33 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Benson</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">78</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 228</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 1</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Electronic Warfare<br />
Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EEA 54 Dunkerque</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">79</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 216</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 16</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETOM 82 Maine</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">France, Tahiti</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">80</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 45</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Training Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 45 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Cranwell</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">80</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 47</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 47 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Brize Norton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">82</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">N 124</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 9</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/4<br />
La Fayette Escadrille<br />
U.S. 103rd Aero Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Istres</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">83</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 39</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 15</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Drone Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 39 RAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">UK,<br />
Creech, USA</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">84</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 73</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 19</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETO 2 Nice</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Cazaux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">85</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 55</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 27</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Training Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 55 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Cranwell</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">86</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 60</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 60 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Shawbury</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">87</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 54</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 5</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">ISR Sqn &amp; OCU</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 54 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Waddington</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">88</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 51</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">SIGINT Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 51 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Waddington</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">89</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 56</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 8</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">OEU</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 56 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Waddington</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">90</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 75</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 13</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/3 Champagne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">91</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 41</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 14</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Test &amp; Evaluation Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 41 RAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Coningsby</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">92</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">Jasta 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 10</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">Jagdstaffel 2<br />
(Red Baron Sqn)</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">GERMAN Empire<br />
Bertincourt, France</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">93</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">Jasta 4</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 25</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">Jagdstaffel 4<br />
(Ernst Udet Sqn)</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">GERMAN Empire<br />
Vaux, France</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">94 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 2 (AFC)</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">AEW Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 2 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Williamtown</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">95 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 77</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 19</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/7 Provence</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Saint Dizier</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">95 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 3 (AFC)</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 19</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 3 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Williamtown</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">97 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">Jasta 11</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">Jagdstaffel 11<br />
« Flying Circus »<br />
(Red Baron Sqn)</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">GERMAN Empire<br />
Douai, France</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">98</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 4 (AFC)</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">FACDU Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 4 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Williamtown</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">99</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 208</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 26</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 208 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Valley</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">100</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">3 FTS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">3 FTS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Vance</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">100</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 78</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 1</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 78 RAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Benson</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">102</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 79</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 21</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/91 Gascogne</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Saint Dizier</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">103</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 78</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec 12</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETO 2 Nice</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Cazaux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">104</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 81</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/4 La Fayette</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Istres</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">105</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 84</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">SAR Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 84 RAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">UK,<br />
Akrotiri, Cyprus</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">106</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 100</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 23</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 100 RAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Leeming</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">107</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 131</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 2/64 Anjou</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">107</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">12 RS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 2</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">12th Recce Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Beale,<br />
California</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">109</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">119 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">119th Fighter Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Atlantic City,<br />
New Jersey</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">110</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">34 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 11</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">34th Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Ellsworth</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">111</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">35 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 12</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">35th Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Kunsan, S. Korea</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">111</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">36 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 12</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">36th Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Osan, S. Korea</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">113</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">9 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 14</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">9th Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Dyess</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">114</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 6 (AFC)</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 6 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Amberley</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">114</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">27 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">27th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Fighting Eagles »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Langley,<br />
Virginia</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">116 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 132</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="5" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ET 2/64 Anjou</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Evreux</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">117</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">23 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">23rd Bomb Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Minot,<br />
North Dakota</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">118</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">JG 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Sqn/Group</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">Jagdgeschwader 1<br />
(Red Baron Sqn)</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">GERMAN Empire<br />
Douai (France)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">119</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">11 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">11th Bomb Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Barksdale,<br />
Louisiana</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">119</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">20 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">20th Bomb Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Barksdale,<br />
Louisiana</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">121</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 72</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 28</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Training Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 72 RAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">UK,<br />
Linton-on-Ouse</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">122</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 101</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 12</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air Refuelling Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 101 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Brize Norton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">123</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 153</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/3 Navarre</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Nancy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">124</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 152</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 9</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EHOM 68 Guyane</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
French Guyana,<br />
Rochambeau</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">124</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 162</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 9</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 1/7 Provence</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Saint Dizier</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">126</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">55 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 9</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">55th Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Shaw,<br />
South Carolina</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">127</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">77 AS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 13</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="141">
<p align="center">77 Aero Service Sqn,<br />
predecessor to the current 77 FS<br />
+ 2 Other Squadrons</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="138">
<p align="center">Now 489th RS<br />
Reconnaissance Sqn<br />
&amp; 77th Fighter Sqn<br />
(Former Squadron A)</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Beale,<br />
California<br />
&amp; USA, Shaw,<br />
South Carolina</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 20</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">128</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">110 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 14</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">110th Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Whiteman,<br />
Missouri</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">129</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 99</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 15</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 99 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Brize Norton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">130</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">112 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 18</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">112th Fighter Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Toledo, Ohio</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">131</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">94 FS</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 20</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">94th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Hat in the Ring »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Langley,<br />
Virginia</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">132</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">96 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">96th Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Barksdale,<br />
Louisiana</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">133</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">93 BS</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 21</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">93rd Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Barksdale,<br />
Louisiana</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">134</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">99 RS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">99th Recce Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Beale,<br />
California</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">135</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">120 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">120th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Colorado Cougars »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Buckley AFB,<br />
Aurora, Colorado</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">136</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 216</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air Refuelling Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 216 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Brize Norton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">137</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SAL 253</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 18?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1917</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">AEW Flight</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">36th EDCA</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Avord</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">138</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 257</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="141">
<p align="center">AEW Flight</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">36th EDCA</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Avord</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 8</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1915?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">139</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">79 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 22</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">79th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Tigers »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Shaw,<br />
South Carolina</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">140</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">BR 237</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Flight</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">ETOM 82 Maine</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Tahiti</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 17</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1916?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">141</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 163</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 4</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter &amp;<br />
Experimentation Flight</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 5/330<br />
Cote d&rsquo;argent</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 6</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">142</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 230</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 20</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 230 RAF</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Benson</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">143</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 167</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 22</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">EC 2/4 La Fayette</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE, Istres</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 1 ?</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">144</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">SPA 164</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 18</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter &amp;<br />
Experimentation Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">EC 5/330<br />
Cote d&rsquo;argent</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Mont de Marsan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">145</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">VR 291</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">ED 1/33 Belfort<br />
Drone Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">FRANCE,<br />
Cognac</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">Inact.</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">7. EL</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1918</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Flight</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">7. Eskadra Lotnicza<br />
Kościuszko Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">POLAND, Lviv</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">146</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">VFA-14</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1919</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td valign="bottom" width="138">
<p align="center">Strike Fighter Sqn 14<br />
« Tophatters »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Lemoore,<br />
California</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">Inact.</p>
</td>
<td width="75">
<p align="center">1st KD</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1920</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air Battalion</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">1st Koku Daitai</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">JAPANESE<br />
Empire</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">147</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">VMFA-232</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1925</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Marine Fighter Sqn</p>
</td>
<td valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">The « Red Devils »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Miramar,<br />
California</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">148 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 3</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1930</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 3 RNZAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">NEW ZEALAND,<br />
Ohakea</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">149 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">VP-46</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1931</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Patrol Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">Patrol Squadron 46</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Whidbey Island</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">150 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">CFS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1932</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">Central Flying School<br />
SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Langebaanweg</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">151 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 400</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 5</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1932</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 400 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Borden</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 402</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport/Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 402 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Winnipeg</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">153 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 1 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1933</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">No. 1 Squadron<br />
(The Tigers)</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">INDIA, Gwalior</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">154 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">121 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1930s</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">121st Fighter Sqn<br />
« Guardians »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Andrews,<br />
Maryland</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">155 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">68 AS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1936</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Air School</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">68 Air School SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Pretoria</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">156 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">2 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1939</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">2 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Makhado</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">157 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 10</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1939</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Maritime Patrol Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 10 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Point Cook</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">158 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">15 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1939</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">15 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Port Elizabeth</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">17 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">VIP Transport Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">17 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Waterkloof</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">19 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">19 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Hoedspruit</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">161 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">16 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 14</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1939</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">16 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Bloemspruit</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">162 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 11</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 25</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Maritime Patrol Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 11 RAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">AUSTRALIA,<br />
Edinburgh</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">163</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">18 AS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec 22</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1939</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Aggressor Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">18th AGRS</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Eielson,<br />
Alaska</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">164</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">123 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1940</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">123rd Fighter Sqn<br />
« Redhawks »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Portland,<br />
Oregon</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">165</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">41 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1940</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">41 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Waterkloof</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">166</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">64 AS</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 20</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1940</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Aggressor Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">64th AGRS</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Nellis,<br />
Nevada</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">65 AS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Aggressor Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">65th AGRS</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Nellis,<br />
Nevada</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">69 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">69th Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Minot,<br />
North Dakota</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">169</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">60 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1940</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">60 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Waterkloof</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">125 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">125th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Tulsa Vipers »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Tulsa,<br />
Oklahoma</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">171</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">44 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">44th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Vampires »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Kadena,<br />
Japan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="7" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">172 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">960 AACS</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 15</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">AC&amp;C Squradron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">960th Airborne Air<br />
Control Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Tinker,<br />
Oklahoma</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">4 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">4th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Fightin&rsquo; Fuujins »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Hill, Utah</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">7 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">7th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Bunyips »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Holloman,<br />
New Mexico</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">61 FS</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 15</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">61st Fighter Squadron<br />
« Top Dogs »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Luke,<br />
Arizona</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">62 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">62nd Fighter Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Luke,<br />
Arizona</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">63 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">63rd Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Luke,<br />
Arizona</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">64 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">64th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Fighting Cocks »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Kadena,<br />
Japan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">179 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 403</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter OTS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 403 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Gagetown</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">180 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 404</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">LRP&amp;T Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 404 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Greenwood</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">181 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 405</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 23</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">LRP Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 405 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Greenwood</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">182 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 406</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Maritime OTS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 406 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Shearwater</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">183 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">21 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 8</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">VIP Transport Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">21 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Waterkloof</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 407</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">LRP Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 407 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Comox</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">185 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 408</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 24</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 408 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Edmonton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">186 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 409</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 409 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Cold Lake</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 410</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">No 410 RCAF<br />
(« Jetstream » series)</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Cold Lake</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">188 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 412</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">VIP Transport Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 412 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Trenton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">189 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 413</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport/Rescue Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 413 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Greenwood</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">190 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 5</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Maritime Patrol Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 5 RNZAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">NEW ZEALAND,<br />
Republic of Fiji</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">191 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 417</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 27</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 417 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Cold Lake</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">192 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 419</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1941</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 419 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Cold Lake</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">193</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">80 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 6</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">80th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Headhunters / Juvats »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Misawa, Japan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">194</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">13 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 13</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">13th Fighter Squadron<br />
« The Panther Pack »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Kunsan, S. Korea</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">195</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">81 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">81st Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Spangdahlem, Germany</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">196</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">134 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">134th Fighter Sqn<br />
« The Green<br />
Mountain Boys »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Burlington,<br />
Vermont</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">343 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">343rd Bomb Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Barksdale,<br />
Louisiana</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">198 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 6</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb ?</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="6" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 6 RNZAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">NEW ZEALAND,<br />
RNZ Navy</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">199 ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">100 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 19</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">100th Fighter Sqn<br />
Tuskegee airmen Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Montgomery,<br />
Alabama</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">200</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 423</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 18</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 423 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Shearwater</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">201</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">14 FS</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 20</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">14th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Fightin&rsquo; Samurai »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Misawa, Japan</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">13 RS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Reconnaissance Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">13th Recce Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Beale,<br />
California</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">203</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 425</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 22</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 425 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Bagotville</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">204</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">VMA-214</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron<br />
Marine Attack Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">Pappy Boyington&rsquo;s<br />
« Black Sheep » Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Yuma,<br />
Arizona</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">22 Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Helicopter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">22 Squadron SAAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">SOUTH AFRICA,<br />
Ysterplaat</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">206</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">176 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jul 16</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">176th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Badger Air Militia »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Madison,<br />
Wisconsin</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">207</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">131 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Aug 18</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">131st Fighter Sqn<br />
« Barnestormers »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Barnes,<br />
Massachussetts</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">208</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">159 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Sep 30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">159th Fighter Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Jacksonville,<br />
Florida</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">209</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">148 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 1</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">148th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Kickin&rsquo; ass »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Tucson, Arizona</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">210</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 424</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 15</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport/Rescue Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 424 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Trenton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 426</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport training Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 426 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Trenton</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">212</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 427</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Nov 7</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">SOAS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 427 RCAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">CANADA,<br />
Petawawa</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">213</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">162 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1942</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">162nd Fighter Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Springfield-<br />
Beckley, Ohio</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">214</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">188 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jan 25</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1943</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">188th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Enchilada Air Force »<br />
« The Tacos »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Kirtland,<br />
Albuquerque,<br />
New Mexico</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">215</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 617</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Mar 21</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1943</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">No 617 RAF<br />
« The Dambusters »</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="109">
<p align="center">UK, Lossiemouth</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">216</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">175 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Apr 27</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1943</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">175th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Fightin&rsquo; Lobos »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Sioux Falls,<br />
South Dakota</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">217</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">182 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 24</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1943</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">182nd Fighter Sqn<br />
« Lonestar Gunfighters »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Lackland,<br />
San Antonio, Texas</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">218</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">186 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 25</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">186th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Charlie Chickens »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Great Falls,<br />
Montana</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">219</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">179 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 26</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">179th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Bulldogs »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Duluth, Minnesota</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">220</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 40</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Jun 1</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1943</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 40 RNZAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">NEW ZEALAND,<br />
Auckland</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">93 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">93th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Fighting Makos »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Homestead,<br />
Florida</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">222</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">No 42</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Dec ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1943</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">VIP Transport Sqn</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">No 42 RNZAF</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">NEW ZEALAND,<br />
Whenuapai</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">223</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">393 BS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 28</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1944</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Bomb Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">393rd Bomb Sqn</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Whiteman,<br />
Missouri</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">224</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">21 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct 15</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1944</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">21st Fighter Squadron<br />
« Gamblers »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Luke,<br />
Arizona</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">225</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">157 FS</p>
</td>
<td width="61">
<p align="center">Feb 9?<br />
Jun 30</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1946</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">157th Fighter Squadron<br />
« Swamp Fox »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, McEntire,<br />
South Carolina</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">226</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">124 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1948</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">124th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Hawkeyes »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Des Moines,<br />
Iowa</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">170 FS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">Oct ?</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1948</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Fighter Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="138">
<p align="center">170th Fighter Sqn<br />
« Fighting Illini »</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA,<br />
Springfield,<br />
Illinois</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="44">
<p align="center">228</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="75">
<p align="center">337 AS</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="61">
<p align="center">May 10</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="46">
<p align="center">1949</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="141">
<p align="center">Transport Squadron</p>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" width="138">
<p align="center">337th Airlift Squadron</p>
</td>
<td width="109">
<p align="center">USA, Westover,<br />
Massachussetts</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It has been very difficult to sort out these units in such a ranking as historians are still working on the military aviation history. It is hard to consider whether the administrative or material creation is taken into acount in some cases. For some flights or squadrons, you can find the administrative creation date only but you still find traces of pilots and aircraft&rsquo;s existence of these very flights and squadrons after and even BEFORE the administrative creation!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some other dates correspond to the day when units became operational. Moreover, mistakes have been pointed out in some books and website sources. It has become &#8211; since the beginning of this chart &#8211; that such charts should be updated. Last but not least, the Russian military aviation organization doesn&rsquo;t match the western patterns, and coould not be inserted in these charts. That is to say that these charts cannot be exactly right&#8230; Sorry!</p>
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		<title>A MUST in chivalry history &#8211; When Guynemer spared Udet after strafing through his wing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is a tribute to CPT Georges GUYNEMER who was killed in action on September 11th, 1917. Three months earlier, he fought with Ernst Udet, the ace who came up 2nd after the Red Baron. You can watch hereafter how<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a tribute to CPT Georges GUYNEMER who was killed in action on September 11th, 1917. Three months earlier, he fought with Ernst Udet, the ace who came up 2nd after the Red Baron. You can watch hereafter how this dogfight reportedly happened, and how these fighter pilots had the gut to keep honor above all:</p>
<p><center><iframe loading="lazy" width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vylgMb2km3s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br />
<center><figure style="width: 333px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Georges_guynemer_par_lucien.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" title="Georges Guynemer by &quot;Lucien&quot;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Georges_guynemer_par_lucien.jpg" alt="Georges Guynemer, French Air Force pilot and WWI ace" width="333" height="463" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Georges Guynemer by &quot;Lucien&quot; - Jebulon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jebulon</figcaption></figure></center></p>
<h5>Remember Guynemer&rsquo;s mottos: FAIRE FACE (face up to it) was then adopted by the French Air Force Academy (FAFA) as their motto. A few words that well expresses the French pilots&rsquo; bravery.</h5>
<p><bold>The WWI French ace Georges Guynemer used to say:</p>
<p>&#8211; « Il y a une limite à toute chose, et il faut toujours la dépasser. « Everything has a limit which has always got to be surpassed. »<br />
&#8211; « Lorsque l&rsquo;on n&rsquo;a pas tout donné, on n&rsquo;a rien donné. » « As long as you have not given your all, you have given nothing »</p>
<p>Loyal to these principles, the French ace took part in several hundreds of aerial combats, crediting 53 victories. He was shot down seven times, and he was admired for he always survived, but that September 11, Ninety-three years ago. The hero took off once again. Outnumbered by German warplanes in a last dogfighting over Belgium. Then, he fell.</p>
<p>Since then, the French Air Force aviators have worn a black tie in sign of mourning.</p>
<p>RIP</bold></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Capt. Tony Wickman U.S. Air Forces in Europe Public Affairs 6/1/2010 &#8211; PARIS (AFNS) &#8212; U.S. and French civilian and military leaders paid their respects to America&#8217;s first combat pilots during ceremony at a memorial outside of Paris, May<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">by Capt. Tony Wickman</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">U.S. Air Forces in Europe Public Affairs</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6/1/2010 &#8211; PARIS (AFNS) &#8212; U.S. and French civilian and military leaders paid their respects to America&rsquo;s first combat pilots during ceremony at a memorial outside of Paris, May 27.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Gen. Roger Brady, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander, U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, French Lt. Gen. Paul Fouilland, the Strategic Air Forces commander, several local elected officials and nearly 200 guests gathered at the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial&rsquo;s central Arc de Triomphe to pay tribute to the 68 American pilots who died in service to the Allies during World War I.<br />
READ FULL ARTICLE &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://www.af.mil/" class="broken_link" rel="nofollow">www.af.mil</a> courtesy.</p>
<h5 style="text-align: justify;">Article about the <em>Escadrille Américaine</em></h5>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210226041554/https://www.neam.org/lafayette-escadrille/le_roster.html">List of the 269 pilots who joined up the Lafayette Flying Corps</a></h4>
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