Jean Israël, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean Israël

heroic French Air Force pilot during the Second World War, and a key subject in the non-fiction literary work Flight to Arras (Pilote de guerre) written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1913

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1995

Profession: engineer, airman, aircraft pilot, civil engineer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Jean Israël

  • Jean Israël (1913 – 1995) was a heroic French Air Force pilot during the Second World War, and a key subject in the non-fiction literary work Flight to Arras (Pilote de guerre) written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In 1940 during the Battle of France, Israël, a French Jew, was called up to service in the same reconnaissance wing in which Antoine de Saint-Exupéry would serve.
  • Israël was shot down and presumed killed during a fierce aerial engagement, but in fact parachuted to safety and was quickly captured by the Germans.
  • He was sent to a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lübeck, where he remained for the duration of the war until the camp's inmates were freed by the Allies.

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