MajorMagee
SOH-CM-2022
Just to add to the the recent flood of toys to play with...
PRang asked me to do the Free French the honor of reproducing the Yak-9 of Marcel Lefèvre who flew with the Soviets in the Normandie-Niemen Regiment on the Eastern Front.
In May 1944, returning from a mission over Vitebsk, Marcel Lefèvre’s Yak-9 hemorrhaged fuel and burst into flames a few feet off the ground; he died in a Moscow hospital a month later. (He survives in spirit as a host figure at the Normandie regiment museum in his home town, Les Andelys. Look for the ghost in the machine when this shows up in the Add-Ons Library.)
The Normandie-Niemen regiment left quite a record in its wake: 5,240 missions flown, 273 confirmed kills, 37 probable, and 45 enemy aircraft damaged. Of the 96 pilots who went to Russia, 46 did not return. Jacques André and Marcel Lefèvre were posthumously named Heroes of the Soviet Union. Marcel Albert, and Roland de La Poype were also named Heroes of the Soviet Union.

PRang asked me to do the Free French the honor of reproducing the Yak-9 of Marcel Lefèvre who flew with the Soviets in the Normandie-Niemen Regiment on the Eastern Front.
In May 1944, returning from a mission over Vitebsk, Marcel Lefèvre’s Yak-9 hemorrhaged fuel and burst into flames a few feet off the ground; he died in a Moscow hospital a month later. (He survives in spirit as a host figure at the Normandie regiment museum in his home town, Les Andelys. Look for the ghost in the machine when this shows up in the Add-Ons Library.)
The Normandie-Niemen regiment left quite a record in its wake: 5,240 missions flown, 273 confirmed kills, 37 probable, and 45 enemy aircraft damaged. Of the 96 pilots who went to Russia, 46 did not return. Jacques André and Marcel Lefèvre were posthumously named Heroes of the Soviet Union. Marcel Albert, and Roland de La Poype were also named Heroes of the Soviet Union.