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	Gorges Guynemer
		Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer was born in Paris on Christmas eve 1894 the son of Paul Guynemer, a retired army officer from an established military family and a graduate of Saint Cyr's class of 1880.
		As a teenager Guynemer was practiced in the art of roller-skating, then all the rage in Paris, and excelled at fencing and rifle shooting.
		Guynemer learned much about the workings of the internal combusion engine from his freind, knowledge which would later stand him in good stead, and the pair developed a passion for the new science of aviation.
	www.wwimodeler.com /storks/guy/guy.html (2153 words)

	Georges Guynemer
		Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (December 24, 1894 - September 11, 1917) was a French aviator during World War I.
		Born into a wealthy Compiègne family, Guynemer experienced an often sickly childhood.
		Upon joining the elite Escadrille N.3 in 1916, Guynemer quickly established himself as one of France's premier fighter pilots.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/g/ge/georges_guynemer.html (262 words)

	Ernst Udet and Guynemer
		It was Guynemer who effected the tactic of attacking with the sun.
		Guynemer had watched me doing and knew for now I was his defenseless victim : he made another pass just over my head in almost inverted flight and to my amazement made a sign with his hand and left westward.
		Afterwards some people suggested that Guynemer's machine gun had the same problem while others thought he was afraid of me hitting him in my distress.
	www.flyandrive.com /story2.htm (851 words)

	Georges Guynemer
		Nonostante il suo fisico fragile, Georges Guynemer partecipò a più di 600 combattimenti aerei e fu abbattuto ben sette volte, riuscendo sempre a sopravvivere.
		Guynemer si aggiudicò un ulteriore particolare merito, riuscendo a costringere a terra un bombardiere bimotore Gotha perfettamente intatto.
		Guynemer e Bozon-Verduraz cercano di aggirare il ricognitore, ma questo si lascia cadere in spirale e riesce a sfuggirli.
	www.aspeterpan.com /book1/Guynemer.htm (1111 words)

	Guynemer
		Born Georges Marie Ludovic Guynemer in 1894, he was so slight and unimpressive at age 20, that French Army doctors wouldn't accept him for service in 1914.
		On Guerder's "115th shot," Guynemer was elated to see the enemy pilot slump down, hit, and the observer throw up his hands in despair.
		It covers the varieties of the Nieuport (11, 17, 28, etc.) in detail, down to the machine gun on the Type 11: a Lewis gun, of.303 caliber, carrying 476 rounds in its drum, and was mounted on the upper wing by a "Foster" mount, so named for the RFC sergeant who invented it.
	www.acepilots.com /wwi/fr_guynemer.html (1716 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Georges Guynemer
		Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (1894-1917) was one of France's highest scoring fighter pilots during World War One, achieving 54 victories prior to his death on 11 September 1917.
		Born on 24 December 1894 in Paris, Guynemer was to become France's most popular and revered air ace of the war.
		Ever seeking ways of improving the fighting efficiency of his aircraft, a SPAD S.VII, Guynemer attached a single-shot 37mm cannon to the machine in the summer of 1917, which fired through a hollowed out propeller shaft.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/guynemer.htm (298 words)

	French Aces of WW1 - Georges Guynemer
		Guynemer received letters from women proposing marriage, requests from school children for his autograph and was often followed through the streets.
		Looking for ways to improve the performance of his aircraft, Guynemer armed a SPAD S.VII with a single-shot 37 mm canon that fired through a hollowed out propeller shaft.
		On September 11, 1917, Guynemer was last seen attacking a two-seater Aviatik near Poelcapelle, northwest of Ypres.
	www.wwiaviation.com /aces/ace_Guynemer.shtml (522 words)

	Nieuport 17c.1
		The decals are for two sous-lieutenant Georges Guynemer planes in Escadrille N.3 in the summer of 1916.
		The Nieuport 17, N1531, was the mount of sous-lieutenant Georges Guynemer in the end of July 1916 in Escadrille N.3.
		Georges Guynemer achieved 53 kills and he was the second-highets scoring ace of all French aces after René Fonck.
	koti.mbnet.fi /~jjuvonen/planes/nieuport17.html (820 words)

	Review: Guynemer: Les Avions d'un As by the editorial staff of Avions magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Guynemer's celebrity guarantees that there are plenty of photographs of him available for publication.
		While this is a service biography focusing on Guynemer, it nonetheless provides almost equally good photographic coverage of Guynemer's comrades and their aircraft, which he often borrowed.
		The Guynemer volume is thus a valuable contribution, useful to modelers and historians alike.
	worldatwar.net /chandelle/v4/v4n1-2/rvw-guy.html (314 words)

	Georges Guynemer
		Guynemer's father used his influence and so did Captain Bernard Thierry to help him enrol as a pilot trainee in March, 1915.
		He was an excellent marksman and had his SPAD modified to carry a 37 mm cannon capable of firing high explosive rounds.
		Charles Guynemer, Darling of France was lost On 11 September 1917.
	www.paperwarbirds.com /html/pages/Gunmeyer.htm (533 words)

	Georges Guynemer 's Hispanos and Stork. (UPDATE) - PreWarCar.com
		During World War I a French 'topgun', Georges Guynemer, (wwimodeler.com) who not only drove a Hispano Suiza, but also flew a Hispano powered, twin winged Spad, in which he achieved 53 victories.
		The mascot of his squadron was a Flying Stork (click) and as a tribute to Georges Guynemer it graced all radiators of Hispano Suiza from 1918 on.
		In the port area of Dunkerque in Northern France, a memorial was erected for Georges Guynemer, with of course the mascot of the Flying Stork on it.
	www.prewarcar.com /read_article.asp?id=982 (154 words)

	Georges Guynemer's Headstone - The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
		The memorial to Georges Guynemer in the center of Poelkapelle, Belgium was erected in 1923.
		Georges Guynemer whose wings of victory granted him at twenty one an incomparable glory in the skies of combat.
		Another monument to Georges Guynemer stands outside the HQ Armée de l'air in Paris.
	www.theaerodrome.com /aces/france/headstones/guynemer.php (157 words)

	This is a print numbered 328 of 930 or 430 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is numbered 328 of 430 (or possibly 930), it’s hard to tell from the lightly penciled notation.
		The photo on the right, above, is the complete piece, the lithograph plus the paper to which it is attached measuring 17" wide x 24" high.
		Below the print and written directly onto the backing paper is Guynemer's original signature on the left and the penciled 328 over 430 or 930.
	www.aeroconservancy.com /guynemer.htm (252 words)

	Air Power:The Flying Aces of World War I
		Although soldiers had received recognition for their heroism on the battlefield for many years, in Europe it was a fairly recent phenomenon for non-aristocratic soldiers to be named by other than their rank and the initial of their last name.
		This new age meant men such as Georges Guynemer, a weak, sickly son of an insurance salesman, could become a national hero and be memorialized in the Pantheon with other French heroes like Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie.
		And in his death, Guynemer reached an unsurpassed level of mythology--his airplane simply disappeared during a dogfight in September 1917.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/aces/AP5.htm (1405 words)

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		The artist, accordingly, has painted Richthofen and Guynemer in the style of Medieval sacred painting, recognizing the level of adoration accorded those pioneer warriors.
		In eight months in 1917 the legendary Georges Guynemer shot down 28 enemy planes, with an ultimate total of 53 victories.
		Guynemer, a true romantic, received a proper fate.
	www.tomleamonartist.com (782 words)

	WRCS - GEORGES GUYNEMER
		Georges Guynemer was born in France on 24th December 1894, on the outbreak of the WWI he joined the French Air Service.
		Guynemer achieved 53 victories before being shot down and killed on 11th September, 1917.
		Officer of the elite, a fighting pilot as skilful as he is audacious, he (Georges Guynemer) has rendered brilliant service to his country, as much by the number of his victories, as by his daily keenness and ever-growing mastery.
	www.wrcs.org.au /articles/73.htm (318 words)

	11/11 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		November 11, 2006 1:16 PM The Great War in the Air is a 69-part video project, clearly a labor of love, by one Jan Goldstein, a musician, painter, and publican.
		So far, the Georges Guynemer and Lanoe Hawker videos both seem to have ended in the middle of their career.
		Guynemer is featured in a couple of segments until his death/disappearance.
	www.metafilter.com /56235/1111 (822 words)

	SPAD VII
		It was also quite fast and was used quite successfully by France’s top pilots of the war including Georges Guynemer.
		It was acquired by the Aerodrome in the spring of 1999 and was the last aircraft that Mr.
		It is finished in the colors of one of the SPADs flown by Capt. Georges Guynemer.
	www.oldrhinebeck.org /collection/airplanes/SPAD%20VII.htm (173 words)

	Persoon detail fiche
		Georges Guynemer werd in Frankrijk geboren op 24 december 1894.
		Guynemer behaalde 53 overwinningen vooraleer hij zelf boven Poelkapelle werd neergehaald op 11 september 1917.
		Georges Guynemer - Beloved French Ace, 53 victories
	www.wo1.be /ned/database/personen/persDetail.asp?persoonID=248 (98 words)

	Georges Guynemer Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
		The quotes below are those from or by Georges Guynemer.
		You can also move quickly to the next quote source, Georges Pompidou, or the previous quotable source, Georges Danton.
		If you do not find the famous quote that you are looking for on these pages, search our dynamic quotations, quotes, sayings, and proverbs from the QuoteMountain Famous Quote Search Engine.
	www.quotemountain.com /famous_quote_author/georges_guynemer_famous_quotations (188 words)

	Posts tagged with guynemer \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Great War in the Air is a 69-part video project, clearly a labor of love, by one Jan Goldstein, a musician, painter, and publican.
		Here's a representative sample: Part 7, on the French ace Georges Guynemer.
		Many of the images seen in the film may be perused at earlyaviator.com.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/guynemer (59 words)

	Evolution of Aerial Warfare [Home]
		On 11 September 1917, Guynemer was last seen attacking an Aviatik near Poelcapelle, northwest of Ypres.
		Shortly thereafter, a German newspaper reported Guynemer had been shot down by Kurt Wissemann, although Guynemer's body was never found.
		In all Guynemer was credited with 53 air victories.
	library.thinkquest.org /C002733/People/wwi3.htm (184 words)

	Memorial to WWI fighter plot Georges Guynemer - Americans in France
		Memorial to WWI fighter plot Georges Guynemer - Americans in France
		Resource for people that would like to live or travel in France.
		Memorial to WWI fighter plot Georges Guynemer located on Air Base 102 Dijon.
	www.americansinfrance.net /Attractions/Georges_Guynemer.cfm (36 words)

	WORLD WAR 1 - Old Vintage Antique Postcard Postcards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Captain Guynemer, from a apinting of the Army Museum in Paris by Cousins Lawrence.
		BELGIUM - Elizabeth Shrapnell, Child found in the ruins of her house in 1914.
		Portraits of Tsar Nicholas II, French president Poincaré and King George V. Unused postcard.
	www.postcardman.net /www1.html (728 words)

	Corgi Die-cast Airplanes and Military Aircraft (31-40 of 110)
		Walter Nowotny, arguably the most successful FW 190 pilot of the war, claimed the vast percentage of his 258 kills with the Focke-Wulf fighter on the Eastern Front, in 1942-44.
		French ace of aces, Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer, was revered by the people of France as the veteran of over 600 combats.
		Twice wounded and awarded 26 citations, the recipient of the highest honors for galantry France could bestow, his official victory total is 53, but it has been suggested that the true figure is closer to 100.
	www.zionantiquemall.com /page134 (640 words)

	Corgi AA37902 - Diecast Model Spad XIII French Air Service SPA3 Escadrille, George Guynemer: The Flying Mule
		French ace of aces, Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer, was revered by the people of France as the veteran of over 600 air combats.
		Twice wounded and awarded 26 citations, the recipient of the highest honors for gallantry France could bestow, his official victory total is 53, but it has been suggested that the true figure is closer to 100.
		Designed as a refinement of the highly-successful Spad VII, was first flown on April 4th, 1917.[See more Spad XIII products]
	www.flyingmule.com /products/CG-AA37902 (436 words)

	Georges Guynemer by Henry Bordeaux - Free eBook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Georges Guynemer by Henry Bordeaux - Free eBook
		May my readers, when they have finished this little book, composed according to the rules of the boy, Paul Bailly, lift their heads and seek in the sky whither he carried, so often and so high, the tricolor of France, an invisible and immortal Guynemer!
		In his book on Chivalry, the good Léon Gautier, beginning with the knight in his cradle and wishing to surround him immediately with a supernatural atmosphere, interprets in his own fashion the sleeping baby smiling at the angels.
	manybooks.net /titles/bordeauxh1811718117-8.html (175 words)

	Georges Guynemer Quotes
		1 Quotes for 'Georges Guynemer' in the Database.
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	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Georges-Guynemer/1/index.html (49 words)

	Rosebud's WWI and Early Aviation Image Archive
		Feel free to email me if you have any corrections, suggestions or contributions.
		Georges Guynemer, his Gun Camera and his SPADs
		George Guynemer's last aircraft - Spad XIII S.504
	www.earlyaviator.com /archive2.htm (314 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Air Aces & Commanders
		This sub-section of the Who's Who category of the site contains folio biographies for the war's air aces and their commanding officers.
		The aviation war threw up new 'knights of the skies', and include such luminaries as the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary French air ace Georges Guynemer, and the indomitable and controversial Canadian Billy Bishop.
		Click here to view the section on the air war.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/airwar.htm (123 words)

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