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Thierry de Faletans, de, Bruno

Date of birth:
June 12th, 1917 (Bourgouin, France)
Date of death:
June 30th, 1944
Buried on:
French War Graves Vvedenskoe Cemetery
Nationality:
French

Biography

Rank: Lieutenant chef

30.06.1944: he took off from the Rileki base in a Yak-7 with his Soviet mechanic, Lieutenant Serge Astakhov, for the field where he had left his plane broken down. They were both killed in circumstances that have never been clarified.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Lieutenant (Flying Officer)
Unit:
Normandie-Niemen squadron, Free French Air Force
Chevalier de l' Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur

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