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3 days ago · kathyfoley21 May 19, 2024. 00:00. 00:00. 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. Born in France in 1885 to a French mother ...
5 days ago · Raoul Lufbery Lufbery only spent two years in Connecticut, working at a silver-plating factory in Wallingford, yet the former French native was “probably the state’s greatest hero of the First World War,” according to ConnecticutHistory.org .
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 · Age of Aces Presents. THIS week we have a story from the pen of British Ace, Captain John E. Doyle, D.F.C. Born in 1893, Captain Doyle was a successful fighter pilot in WWI with 9 confirmed victories with 56 & 60 Squadrons. Near the end of the war, he was shot down and taken prisoner where they amputated his leg.
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.
4 days ago · It was named for Raoul Lufbery, a French-American airman and ace with 17 kills, although there is no evidence that he devised the tactic. The Lufbery Circle was abandoned later in the war as airplanes became faster and more maneuverable, obviating the need for such a tactic except by slower aircraft such as bombers.
4 days ago · ¹ American ace Sergent Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery, also a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, shot down his first enemy aircraft 30 July 1916. © 2023, Bryan R. Swopes
