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3 days ago · Today in 1918, one of America’s greatest and most colorful World War I flying aces was killed in France. Raoul Lufbery, a proud Franco-American and former Wallingford resident, died after his plane was fired on by a German triplane during an aerial dogfight.
3 days ago · 19 May 1918: Major Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery, 94th Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Force, a leading Allied fighter pilot of World War I, was killed in action at Maron, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
5 days ago · For his actions, MacKenzie received the Medal of Honor, reportedly the first Naval reservist to do so. MacKenzie survived the war, entering the restaurant business. On Dec. 26, 1933, he died after a heart attack. A ballfield in Holyoke, Mass., is named in his honor. Raoul Lufbery.
4 days ago · Rockwell is credited as the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft during World War I. ¹. Rockwell wrote to his brother, Paul Ayres Rockwell: Thursday, May 18, 1916. Dear Paul: Well, at last I have a little something to tell you. This morning I went out over the lines to make a little tour.
3 days ago · 1918 Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace, dies at 33; 1921 Edward Douglass White, American politician and jurist (9th Chief Justice of the United States), dies at 75; 1922 Heinrich Quincke, German internist and surgeon (postural drainage), dies at 79
2 days ago · During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to deadly conditions. Of nearly six million that were captured, around three million died during their imprisonment.
4 days ago · Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery (1885-1918) was born in France to a French mother and American father. Although having the American nationality, he enlisted as fighter pilot for the French army, for whom he shot down 16 enemy aircraft, and switched to the US army - obtaining one final aerial victory.
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