About Achille Rousseaux
Lived 1887 – 1928 (aged 40–41). Achille Rousseaux was a French flying ace.
Adjutant Achille Justin Ernest Rousseaux was a French World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.
Biography See also Aerial victory standards of World War I
A museum displayed Caudron G.4. Rousseaux flew this Caudron variant, or one very like it.
Achille Justin Ernest Rousseaux was born in Dijon, France on 29 August 1887.
He was a cavalryman before his switch to aviation service. Details of his training are unavailable, but he was assigned as a Caudron bomber pilot. He shared his first aerial victory, on 8 September 1916, in conjunction with Jean Loste, Louis Martin, and three other pilots. In November, while cooperating with Marie Vitalis and Didier Lecour Grandmaison, among others, he was credited with downing a German Roland, an Albatros, and an Aviatik.
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French flying ace (1887–1928)
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Achille Rousseaux was born on 29 August 1887 in Dijon.
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Achille Rousseaux died in 1928.
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Achille Rousseaux was a flying ace.
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Achille Rousseaux was French.
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