• Pierre Le Gloan (6 January 1913 – 11 September 1943) was a French flying ace of World War II. Unique in the annals of wartime flying, he scored victories...
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    severely damaged. French fighter ace Pierre Le Gloan shot down the Gladiator for his 15th confirmed kill. Le Gloan himself had to crash-land his damaged...
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    the Western Front, shot down five French aircraft. On 15 June 1940, Pierre Le Gloan of the French Air Force destroyed five Italian aircraft in one flight...
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    Commonwealth in the war. Fighting on different sides, the French pilot Pierre Le Gloan had the unusual distinction of shooting down four German, seven Italian...
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    unoccupied mainland France. One of the most successful D.520 pilots was Pierre Le Gloan, who shot 18 aircraft down (four Germans, seven Italian and seven British)...
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    Marcel Albert Pierre Clostermann The top-scoring Free French air ace in western Europe with 33 victories. Romain Gary Pierre Le Gloan Fighter pilot who...
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  • June, French ace pilot Pierre Le Gloan shot down two Fiat BR.20 bombers with his Dewoitine D.520 fighter. On 15 June, Le Gloan, along with another pilot...
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  • Georges Garde Gabriel Gauthier Roger Gerard Jean Girou Justin Gisclon Pierre Le Gloan Robert G. Gouby Charles Goujon Jean Gourbeyre Georges Gras Henri Grimaud...
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  • attacks before they reach the beachhead. September 11 French fighter ace Pierre Le Gloan (18 victories) dies in a crash. A Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 bomber badly...
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  • Edouard le Nigen 12 1 Alphonse Maurice Leblanc Émile Leblanc 7 1 André Légrand Pierre Le Gloan 7 On 11 September 1943, flying for the Allies, Le Gloan died...
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  • different air forces Takeo Tanimizu  Japan Imperial Japanese Navy 18 Pierre Le Gloan †  France French Air Force; Free French Air Force 18 Ace in a day Hubert...
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  • Juutilainen, Hans Wind)      French (Marcel Albert, Jean Demozay, Pierre Le Gloan)      Soviet (Ivan Kozhedub, Aleksandr Pokryshkin, Grigori Rechkalov...
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  • Falc'hun. Paris: C. Klincksieck, 1920 (reprint Geneva, 1985). Lambert, Pierre-Yves. La Langue gauloise. Paris: Errance, 1994. Savignac, Jean-Paul. Dictionnaire...
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  • Celtic *eburos". In: Oudaer, Guillaume, Hily, Gael, Le Bihan, Herve (eds.). Mélanges en l'honneur de Pierre-Yves Lambert. pp. 65-76. ISBN 978-2-917681-27-5...
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