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Raoul Lufbery. Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery (March 14, 1885 – May 19, 1918) [1] was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army Air Service in World War I, he is sometimes listed alternately as a French ace or as an American ace.
- World War I
- 1907–1909; 1914–1918
- Major
Apr 6, 2020 · Major Gervais Raoul Lufbery spent only two years of his brief, nomadic life in Connecticut and today his name is largely forgotten, but during his lifetime, Lufbery was probably the state’s greatest hero of the First World War. He became America’s first air ace and his exploits with the Lafayette Escadrille and the newly formed United ...
Maj. Raoul Lufbery. Maj. Raoul Lufbery, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, transferred to the U.S. Air Service following the country's entry into the war. A famous combat flyer of the period with 17 confirmed victories with the French, he was assigned to the 94th Aero Squadron that had just arrived on the Front.
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He died on Oct. 15 at age 29. In December 1916, l’Escadrille Américaine would get a more emotive moniker, as the Escadrille Lafayette. Raoul Lufbery would be its leading ace with 16 victories ...
Gervais Raoul Lufbery. Pilot & Military Strategist. Born: March 14, 1885 in France. Death: May 19, 1918. Enshrined: 1998. Went to France with accomplished pilot, Marc Pourpe in 1914 to join the war effort. Pourpe pulled some strings to make Lufbery his personal mechanic.
Lufbery was subsequently reassigned to the U.S. 95th Aero Pursuit Squadron and then the 94th as a combat instructor. He met his death on 19 May 1918 when, fighting a German Rumpler aircraft, his guns jammed prior to his aircraft bursting into flames. Lufbery was seen to fall upside down from the aircraft 200 feet from the ground, possibly from ...
Gervais Raoul Lufbery was born on March 14, 1885 in France. His father moved to Connecticut where he set up a stamp dealership, leaving Raoul in the care of his grandmother until he was nineteen, when he sailed for America. Ironically, his father sailed for Europe on the same day, and they never saw each other again.
