Fernand Henri Chavannes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French flying ace
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Fernand Henri Chavannes
- Sous Lieutenant Fernand Henri Chavannes was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.
- Chavannes was the son of renowned sinologist and Chinese scholar Édouard Chavannes. Chavannes and his friend Lionel de Marmier were chosen to share a new "cannon Spad", the SPAD XII, when it came out in mid-1917.
- The letters "M" and "C", representing their last names, were intertwined in paint on the side of its fuselage.
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