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Sunday 29 August 2010

Marcel Albert, decorated French WWII pilot died at 92

By Richard Goldstein
New York Times / August 28, 2010



NEW YORK — Marcel Albert, who became one of the leading French fighter pilots of World War II, flying Soviet-built planes in duels with German aircraft on the Eastern front, died Monday in Harlingen, Texas. He was 92.

His death was announced by France’s Order of the Liberation, founded by General Charles de Gaulle during the war. The cause was complications of cancer.

Mr. Albert was among four pilots of Free French’s Normandie-Niemen fighter unit to be decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union, receiving the citation in 1944. (...)

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