Marcel Lefevre

Marcel Lefèvre (born on March 17th, 1918 with the Andelys, the Eure, dead on June 5th, 1944 with Moscow) is a French pilot. He has with his credit 14 air victories including 11 approved. He obtains his pilot's license at the aero club of Etrépagny in 1937 and between the following year in the air force where he takes down the same year his military pilot's license. After a passage as a pupil monitor with Living room of Provence, it is affected with the group of “Dauphine” hunting II/3.

It is made demobilize the first January 1941, preferring to leave the army rather than to fight against English in Syria. Not supporting to remain in France under the occupation, it joined the group of hunting I/3 " Corse" with Oran in April 1941 when it becomes acquainted with Albert Durand and Marcel Albert.

It is in their company that he escapes on October 14th, 1941 for Gibraltar. In December 1941, it engages in the FAFL then is affected in an English squadron charged to defend London. It consequently takes part occasion in missions in the top of the Manche and occupied France.

The news of the creation of a flotilla Normandy-Niémen on the face of the east transports it. It lands on November 29th with Ivanovo. In March, it is launched in the first engagements.

May 28th, 1944, it poses its plane in flames on the ground of Doubrovska. Seriously burned to the face, the thighs and the hands, he succumbs to his wounds at the hospital of Moscow, on June 5th, 1944, per hour even where the allies launched out to the attack of the beaches of its native Normandy.

He is buried in Moscow, close to the Grognard S of Napoleon, surrounded by honors in the presence of his comrades of combat and the more Russian and French high ranking authorities. On a purely posthumous basis and on order of Stalin, it is made Héros of the Soviet Union with the Ordre of Lénine.

In February 1953, its mortal remains is transferred in Normandy where it rests now near her parents in Andelys.

Decorations

  • Hero of the Soviet Union

  • Order of Lénine,
  • Cross of the Release,
  • Military Cross,
  • Legion of honor,
  • Order of the Red Flag,
  • Order of the War for the Fatherland.

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