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Aeronautical Medal
The Aeronautical Medal (french: "Médaille de l'Aéronautique") is a state decoration of France established by the decree of February 14, 1945. It is awarded to both military personnel and civilians for outstanding accomplishments related to the field of aeronautics. Originally envisioned before the Second World War, it was intended as an equal to the Order of Maritime Merit. The intent was to create an aerial order of merit intended for civilian and military personnel working in aeronautics. The war temporarily put an end to the project until February 1945. Statute Recipients are chosen by a council presided by a member of the office of the secretary of state for the armed forces (air) that will be composed of: *the chief of staff of the air force, *the director of the aeronautical administration control department, *the technical and industry director to the secretary of state for the armed forces (air), *a member named by decree of the minister for public works, transport ...
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Cross Of The Resistance Volunteer Combatant
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a saltire in heraldic terminology. The cross has been widely recognized as a symbol of Christianity from an early period.''Christianity: an introduction''
by Alister E. McGrath 2006 pages 321-323
However, the use of the cross as a religious symbol predates Christianity; in the ancient times it was a pagan religious symbol throughout Europe and western Asia. The effigy of a man hanging on a cross was set up in the fields to protect the crops. It often appeared in conjunction with the female-genital circle or oval, to signify the sacred marriage, as in Egyptian amule ...
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Yves Lambert
Yves Lambert (4 June 1936 – 27 March 2021) was a French aerospace engineer. He was Director General of Eurocontrol from 1994 to 2000. Biography A graduate of the École Polytechnique (1956) and the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation University, promotion 1959), Lambert started his career as head of the technical department of the civil aviation in Algeria (1961). After that, he became director of the air safety organization Organisation de gestion et de sécurité in Algeria (1965–1968). In 1972, he was nominated to be the French representative at the International Civil Aviation Organization. He became Secretary General of ICAO in 1976, a position he held until 1988. He returned to France to be air navigation director of Direction de la navigation aérienne now called Direction des Services de la navigation aérienne until 1993. In 1994, he was nominated Director General of Eurocontrol, a position he held until his retirement in 2000. Yves Lam ...
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Émile Allegret
Émile Allegret (24 April 1907 – 22 November 1990) was a French soldier and member of the French Resistance during World War II. Biography After secondary school, he joined the French Air Force in 1926 for five years. A non-commissioned officer, he followed the course for ''élève aspirant'' (training student) (EOR). He then graduated from the ''École nationale de l'aviation civile'' (French civil aviation university) and became an engineer and test pilot. A reserve officer, he was staying at Royan as a flight instructor when war was declared in September 1939. He heard the appeal of 18 June 1940 and, after the second Armistice at Compiègne, refused to fly for the German air force. Émile Allegret quickly joined the French Resistance. Obliged to conceal his identity, he became an agent of the resistance movement '' Organisation civile et militaire''. After joining the 6th arrondissement of Paris, he carried out information missions on the Atlantic coast and in particular ...
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Louis Pailhas
Louis Pailhas (2 March 1926 – 6 February 2021) was a French public servant. From December 1967 to 1982, he was the director-general of the ''École nationale de l'aviation civile'' (French civil aviation university). Biography Pailhas was born in Foix. After high school studies at the ''Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat'' in Toulouse and the ''classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles'' at the ''lycée Louis-le-Grand'' in Paris, he graduated from the École Polytechnique (X 46) and ''École nationale de l'aviation civile'' (IAC 49). He began his career as a civil aviation engineer in Morocco from 1951 to 1956 and then to the board of directors of the ''direction du secrétariat général de l'aviation civile et commerciale'' until 1959. The same year he was appointed director of the air navigation regional center of Orly, a position he held until 1965. Deputy Director (1965) of the ''École nationale de l'aviation civile'', he was appointed director of the university in December 1967, ...
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Valérie André
Valérie André (; born 21 April 1922) is a veteran of the French resistance, a neurosurgeon, an aviator and the first female member of the military to achieve the rank of General Officer, in 1976, as Physician General. In 1981, she was promoted to Inspector General of Medicine. A helicopter pilot, she is the first woman to have piloted a helicopter in a combat zone. She is also a founding member of the Académie de l'air et de l'espace. As a member of the military, she is not addressed as "Madame la Générale" (a term reserved for spouses of generals) but as "General". She started as a Medical Captain in Indochina in 1948, already a qualified parachutist and pilot, in addition to being an army surgeon. While in Indochina, she realized that the most difficult part of her duties was retrieving the wounded, who were often trapped in the jungle. She returned to France to learn how to pilot a helicopter, then flew one to Indochina. From 1952–1953, she piloted 129 helicopter mis ...
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Jean-Paul Paloméros
Jean-Paul Paloméros (born 13 August 1953 in Paris) is a retired general of the French Air Force and served as Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, a senior military post in NATO. Paloméros previously served as Chief of Staff of the French Air Force from 2009 to 2012. Air force career In 1973, he joined l' École de l'Air, the French Air Force Academy and qualified as a fighter pilot in 1976. He acquired extensive experience both as an operational commander and as a fighter pilot, having flown 82 combat missions and more than 3,500 flying hours, mostly on Mirage F1C and Mirage 2000 aircraft. He led the 2/12 Picardy Squadron in Cambrai for the 1987 Epervier operational deployment in Chad and in 1990 the 30th Fighter Wing in Reims. In 1993, Palomeros graduated from the Royal Air Force Staff College, Bracknell in Great Britain, where he was awarded the Curtis Prize by the British Chief of the Air Staff. From 1996 to 1998, he was appointed as Commander of Cazaux Air Ba ...
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Jean-Loup Chrétien
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born 20 August 1938) is a French retired ''Général de Brigade'' (brigadier general) in the ''Armée de l'Air'' (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space. Personal Chrétien was born in the town of La Rochelle, France. He was married to and then divorced from Amy Kristine Jensen of New Canaan, Connecticut, and had five children. His father, Jacques, was a Navy sailor, and his mother, the former Marie-Blanche Coudurier, was a housewife. Chrétien is fluent in French, English and Russian. Education Chrétien was educated at l'École communale à Ploujean, the Collège Saint-Charles à Saint-Brieuc, and the Lycée de Morlaix. He entered the École de l'Air (the French Air Force Academy) at Salon-de-Provence and graduated in 1961, receiving a master's degree in aeronautical engineeri ...
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Pierre Pouyade
Pierre Pouyade (25 June 1911 – 5 September 1979) was a French Air Force general, World War II flying ace, and a commander of the Normandie-Niemen squadron. By the end of the War he had scored eight solo victories and two group victories, all but one on the Eastern Front. Biography Early life Pouyade was born into a military family and studied in the Prytanée National Militaire from 1924 to 1928. In 1930 he entered Saint Cyr but after two years decided to pursue a career in the Air Force. He was commissioned as a pilot in the Versailles Air Academy in 1934. Lieutenant Pouyade served in the 6th Fighter Wing at Chartres Airfield from 1935 to 1937 and was then transferred to the Reims-based 13th Fighter Wing. On 15 June 1939 he was promoted to captain. World War II During the Battle of France he served as commander of GCN II./13, a Potez 630 night fighter squadron. On 2 June 1940, after destroying an enemy He 111, he was shot down and wounded. He remained in the Vichy ...
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Jacques Andrieux
Jacques Andrieux (15 August 1917 – 21 January 2005) was a French fighter ace of the Second World War credited with 6 aerial victories. Early life Jacques Andrieux was the son of a military doctor, who was deported to Germany as a ''Résistant'' and died in captivity. According to some sources, Andrieux joined the French air force as a non-commissioned officer in 1937. Others contend that he was simply a private pilot and was drafted in the air force at the beginning of the war. At the time of the invasion of France, Andrieux was not an active pilot and did not take part in the fighting. Demobilised in August 1940, he fled on a fishing boat from Brittany to Great-Britain on 16 December 1940 and joined the Free French Air Force. Wartime service Posted to Odiham as a trainee Sergeant pilot, after training he was assigned to No. 130 Squadron in September 1941, flying Spitfires. He achieved his first aerial victory by downing a Fw 190 near Cherbourg 28 February 1943. Promoted t ...
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Francis Pollet
Francis Pollet (born 5 May 1964 at Roubaix), is a French professor and General officer. From March 2017 to the 30th of June 2022, he is the director-general of the ''Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées'' (French private aerospace university). Biography Graduate from the École de l'air (promotion 1985), Francis Pollet started his career as a fighter pilot and cargo pilot where he performed more than 100 missions. Then, he became pilot for the French government and more specifically for the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and the President Jacques Chirac on Dassault Falcon 900 and Airbus Corporate Jet. After that, he has done a 15-year career in human resources and operational activities. He has been aeronautical advisory for 4 Ministry of Defense (Hervé Morin, Alain Juppé, Gérard Longuet and Jean-Yves Le Drian). The 1 September 2003, he is nominated general director of the École de l'air where he managed the digital transformation by creating the MOOC in air defens ...
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Georges Bergé
Georges Roger Pierre Bergé (3 January 1909 – 15 September 1997) was a French Army general who served during World War II. He enlisted in the Free French Forces, where he took command of the ''1re compagnie de chasseurs parachutistes'' (1st Parachute Chaser Company). He is mentioned by David Stirling as one of the co-founders of the Special Air Service (SAS). In Britain and Egypt he organised the training for Allied agents sent to France and led the first airborne mission in occupied France, named Operation Savannah. He fought in Syria and Crete. After his capture by the Germans he was imprisoned in Colditz Castle. Biography Youth Georges Bergé was born on January 1909 in Belmont, in the Gers département, France. He was drafted in 1929, and incorporated in the 24th infantry regiment in Mont-de-Marsan, where he trained as a reserve officer. In April 1930, he demobilised as a second lieutenant. In 1933, he eventually chose a military career and integrated ''l'école de l ...
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