137 - AVIATION. DOCUMENTS. Collection of letters, official correspondence, and a posthumous Legion of Honor medal, photos related to Lieutenant Maurice LERAT, who died on June 24, 1941, along with his crew, when his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire during a bombing mission over LEO 45 south of Palmyra (Syria), enclosed is his unit insignia, a silver stork with lowered wings that appears on his portrait. BE Maurice LERAT, born in 1906, enlisted as a volunteer in 1924, received his pilot’s license in 1926, served in Madagascar (1930–1932), served as a bomber pilot in Group 1/25, shot down by anti-aircraft fire on June 24, 1941, and was posthumously awarded the Legion of Honor.

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AVIATION. DOCUMENTS. Collection of letters, official correspondence, and a posthumous Legion of Honor medal, photos related to Lieutenant Maurice LERAT, who died on June 24, 1941, along with his crew, when his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire during a bombing mission over LEO 45 south of Palmyra (Syria), enclosed is his unit insignia, a silver stork with lowered wings that appears on his portrait. BE Maurice LERAT, born in 1906, enlisted as a volunteer in 1924, received his pilot’s license in 1926, served in Madagascar (1930–1932), served as a bomber pilot in Group 1/25, shot down by anti-aircraft fire on June 24, 1941, and was posthumously awarded the Legion of Honor.

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