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19 de may. de 2024 · 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.
19 de may. de 2024 · Raoul Lufbery is considered to have been the first American “ace,” although all sixteen of his officially-credited aerial victories took place while in the service of France. Major Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery, 94th Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Force, with a Nieuport 28 C.1 fighter, 1918.
19 de may. de 2024 · 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.
19 de may. de 2024 · Sous-lieutenant Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery, Aéronautique Militaire, circa 1917. Lufbery is wearing the pilot’s badge of the Aéronautique Militaire on his tunic. He also is wearing the Chevalier de la légion d’honneur, Médaille Militaire, and Croix de Guere with one silver and three bronze palms.
Hace 3 días · There he came under the tutelage and mentorship of the French flying ace, Major Raoul Lufbery. With regards to flying, Rickenbacker said, "All I learned, I learned from Lufbery". Lufbery took Rickenbacker and Douglas Campbell on their first patrol before their Nieuport 28s were outfitted with machine guns.
2 de may. de 2024 · Raoul Lufbery - Connecticut - Lafayette Escadrille. Originally born in France in 1886; Raoul had an American father. He was a restless young man. At seventeen, he ran away from the family home in CT, and spent four years taking odd jobs and working his way through France, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, and the Balkans.
Hace 6 días · A ballfield in Holyoke, Mass., is named in his honor. 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.
