Roland of Poype

Roland Paulze d' Ivoy of Poype (born in 1920) is one of the fighter pilots the French most famous and heroic of the Second world war. It is also a Industriel pioneer of the Plasturgie and founder of the Marineland d' Antibes in 1970.

Biography

It is born the July 28th 1920 in the Puy-de-Dôme in Auvergne.

Fighter pilot of the second world war

Hardly 19 years old, in August 1939, it engages as raise-pilot to take down his patent in March 1940, little before the German rush of the countryside of France. It succeeds in with his comrades of the school of hunting of Étampes joining Saint-Jean-with-Luz with the Basque Country to embark for the England.

After a passage in French equatorial Africa between July 1940 and January 1941 with the Free French Air forces (FAFL), it integrates in England the " squadron 602 “city off Glasgow” " of Supermarine Spitfire of the Royal Air Force (RAF) with the rank of Sergeant. Proof of its qualities, the chief of the British squadron , the ace Irish with the 23 victories Paddy Finucane, chooses it like team-member.

Learning the formation from a group of French volunteers for the Soviet face , the young pilot is registered with the G.C.3 of the Groupe of hunting Normandy-Niémen and belonged to the 1st quota of pilots who unload with Ivanovo in Russia on November 28th, 1942. It obtains its first victory approved in Russia, its second of the war, on August 31st, 1943 over a Stuka , thus opening a prize list which will on the whole count 16 confirmed victories, obtained for much out of tandem with its accomplice of the group Normandy, Marcel Albert. Present in Soviet Union until the June 20th 1945, “the marquis” or “hippo” as his/her comrades called it becomes attached air in Belgium then in Yugoslavia before leaving the armed in 1947 at only 27 years, haloed titles of hero of the Soviet Union and of Compagnon of the Release.

Industrialist in plasturgie

Inventive visionary and of genius, Roland of Poype understands that the future belongs to the plastic and with the disposable Emballage S. It assembles its first Usine as of May 1947 and launches out in the manufacture of a product which will revolutionize the life of the French: the carton DOP for the group L'Oreal. It develops a true industry of the plastic Emballage, which touches with all the fields, of the Agro-alimentaire with the Loisir. He is also the inventor of the Citroen Méhari.

Founder of Marineland d' Antibes

In 1970, impassioned marine world, it to create the Marineland d' Antibes on the Riviera with for mission of making known the life of the medium difficult to reach from the large marine animals and the Sea to many people.

There takes its retirement in 1985 and remains owner of Marineland until in 2006. He is also owner of a golf, which he has creates in 1989, at 25 minutes of Angers.

Bonds

Roland of Poype on the site about the release
Roland of Poype on the site Aerostories

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