Suzanne Kohn was a French aviator. Kohn was born in Paris to a wealthy Jewish family; one of four children, her sister Antoinette would later become a noted painter and

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fighter. In 1939, Kohn flew a Caudron C.600 Aiglon aircraft from

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, France, to Madagascar. She departed on 25 May, reached

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on 13 June, and

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on 19 June. On her return flight she stopped in Egypt, Syria and

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, Libya.

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