KNIGHT OF THE AIR
MEMORY OF FRENCH ACE HONOURED. The Fighting French honour the memory of Guynemer, the French ace of the last war, who brought down 53 German planes before he himself was killed. Every year, on the anniversary of his death, September 11. 1917, a ceremony was held on all the airfields of France. The Fighting French have kept up this tradition. Before aeroplanes bearing the cross of Lorraine, pilots of the Fighting French _ were drawn up in review on an airfield near London before General Valin, National Commissioner for Air, who conferred decorations on both British and French pilots. Immediately after the ceremony the French planes flew off in the direction of France to fight the enemies of their' country.
Udet, the German flyer, in his memoirs of the last war, told of an encounter with Guynemer. The German had fired off his last: round of ammunition and was entirely at the mercy of the French ace. Guynemer refused to shoot down a defenceless foe. He waved his hand and flew Ci’ff.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 4
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