'' Maréchal-des-logis'' Gilbert Jean Uteau was a French World War I

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credited with five aerial victories.The Aerodrome website page on Utea

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Biography

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Gilbert Jean Uteau volunteered for military service as an artilleryman about a year after World War I began, on 10 July 1915. The next notice of Uteau in the archives is his posting to '' Escadrille Spa.315'' on 24 November 1917. Flying in defense of

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,''Over the Front: The Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914–1918'', p. 109 he shot down two German airplanes and two observation balloons between 11 July and 21 October 1918. On 14 September, after his fourth triumph, Uteau was awarded the'' Medaille Militaire'' for valor. By the war's end on 11 November 1918, he had also earned the '' Croix de Guerre'' with six ''palmes'' and an ''etoile''.''Over the Front: The Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914–1918'', p. 222 Postwar, he was taken into the ''

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''. He became a journalist, writing under the

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of Le Bailli. He died in

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on 5 April 1963.

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References

* Franks, Norman; Bailey, Frank (1993). ''Over the Front: The Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914–1918''. London, UK: Grub Street Publishing. . 1897 births 1963 deaths French World War I flying aces {{france-mil-bio-stub