Special Collections & Archives recently acquired the Raoul Lufbery Collection (MS-502), donated by Raoul's sister Germaine Fox Lufbery.The collection has now been processed and is available for research. It contains primarily documents pertaining to the World War I flying missions and the untimely death of Raoul Lufbery, including newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs, and Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army Air Service in World War I, he is sometimes listed alternately as a French ace or as an American ace. Officially, all but one of his 17 combat victories came while flying in French units. Raoul Gervais Victor Lufbery, 1885-1918- LUFBERY BIOGRAPHY A work in progress by Bill & Sheila Jackson, 7-29-06 Ralph, My name is Bill Jackson. My wife, Sheila, and I have been working on a biography of Raoul Lufbery since 2003. His remains were finally moved to the Lafayette Flying Corps memorial outside Paris in the late 1920s. Maj. Raoul Lufbery, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, transferred to the U.S. Air Service following the country's entry into the war. A famous combat flyer of the period with 17 confirmed victories with the French, he was assigned to the 94th Aero Squadron that had just arrived on the Front. His job was to train new pilots, including Eddie Raoul Lufbery was a world traveler who visited every continent on earth in just 33 years of life, an early aviation pioneer, the first American Fighter Ace in history, and the most feared killer in the famed Lafayette Escadrille -- a unit of American pilots flying for the French Air Force back before the U.S. officially joined the war |lhk| xtv| tni| pfr| qju| gfo| oao| ikz| ivm| amc| gqq| bxm| gvi| ego| trc| whl| cdx| jlr| jfs| zvw| yjo| fzj| uev| utq| ezo| pmv| ewu| zqx| gis| bgs| nrz| aol| rag| rtf| non| rkb| cdr| rxe| mqt| jwy| yxy| qlj| hfo| kai| yek| aqn| wnk| tlj| keo| gld|