Joseph Risso, Noël Castelain
| Top Foreign WWII fighter aces in Soviet VVS and PVO service |
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Orosko Manuel Rovira foto |
Abbreviations: VVS = Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily (Military Air Forces) PVO = Protivo-Vozdushnaya Oborona (Anti Air Defence) N-N = Normandie-Niemen (the name of the French squadron in USSR) CsSLP = Ceskoslovensky stihaci letecky pluk (Czechoslovak fighter air regiment) EC = Escuadrilla de Caza (fighter squadron, Spain) GC = Groupe de Chasse (fighter squadron, France) Sq = Squadron (Great Britain) IAP = Istrebitelnyj AviaPolk (fighter air squadron, USSR) |
| Nation | Personal Victories | Shared Victories | Name | Units and Service | Planes | Notes |
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| 11 (11) | 5 (4) | Jacques Andre | GC II/3 ;
N-N
| D.520 ; Yak-9 , Yak-3 | |
| 12 (3) | Vladimír Krisko |  13/JG52 ;
1CsSLP
| Bf109 ; La-5 | ||
| 20? (1) | Vincente Beltran | ;
283IAP , 960IAP
| I-16 ; MiG-3 , I-16 , MiG-1 , La-5 | ||
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| 10 (3) | 5 (5) | José Pascual Santamaria | 1EC ;
283IAP , 788IAP
| MiG-3 , Yak-1 | Killed 1942 |
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| 11 (1) | Manuel Orozco Rovira (Orlov Petr Manuilovich) | 4EC ;
785IAP
| I-15 | ||
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| 9 (2) | 4 (4) | Maurice Bon | GC II/2 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | Killed 1943 |
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| 9 (5) | 2 (2) | René Lucien Martin | GC II/7 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | |
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| 9 (2) | Andrés Fierro Ménu | 3EC ;
439IAP
| I-16 type5 , type10 ; Hurricane , Yak-7B, P39 | ||
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| 8 (8) | 3 (3) | Marcel Lefèvre | GC II/3 ;
 ;
N-N
| D.520 ; Spitfire ;Yak | Died of Wounds 1944 |
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| 8 (4) | 2 (2) | Albert Durand | GC I/3 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | Missed 1943 |
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| 8 (3) | 1 (1) | Yves Mourier | GC III/7 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | |
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| 8 (1) | Francisco Meroño Pellicer | 1EC , 6EC ;
827IAP
| I-16 ; MiG-1 , La-5 | ||
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| 7 (6) | 9 (9) | Roland de la Poype | 602Sq ;
N-N
| Spitfire V ; Yak-9 , Yak-3 | |
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| 7 (2) | 8 (2) | Albert Littolf | GC III/7 ;
80Sq , 73Sq , 274Sq , 341Sq ;
N-N
| D.520 ; Hurricane ; Yak-9 | Killed 1943 |
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| 7 (7) | 6 (6) | Marcel Perrin | N-N
| Yak-3 | |
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| 7 (5) | 6 (6) | Léon Cuffaut | GC II/6 ;
N-N
| ; Yak-3 | |
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| 7 (5) | 6 (4) | George Lemare | GC I/4 ;
N-N
| Hawk 75 , Yak-3 | |
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| 7 (5) | 1 (1) | René Challe | GC III/7 ;
N-N
| MS.406 ; Yak-9T , Yak-3 | |
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| 6 (6) | 16 (15) | Marcel Albert | GC I/3 ;
340Sq ;
N-N
| CR.714 , D.520 ; Spitfire V ; Yak-1B , Yak-9 , Yak-3 | |
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| 6 (6) | 7 (7) | Robert Marchi | N-N
| Yak-3 | |
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| 6 (6) | 4 (4) | Robert Castin | ;
N-N | Yak-3 | |
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| 6 (3) | 3 (1) | André Moynet | 340Sq ;
N-N
| Spitfire IXb ; Yak-9 , Yak-3 | |
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| 6 (4) | 2 (2) | Yves Carbon | GC I/5 , GC III/10 ;
N-N
| MB.152 ; Yak-3 | |
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| 5 (4) | 11 (?) | Louis Delfino | GC I/4 , GC II/9 ;
N-N
| MB.152 ; Yak-3 | |
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| 5 (3) | 11 (11) | Roger Sauvage | GC I/16 ;
N-N
| ; Yak-3 | |
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| 5 (5) | 6 (6) | Joseph Risso | N-N
| Yak-9T | |
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| 5 (5) | 5 (5) | Maurice Challe | N-N
| Yak-9 , Yak-3 | Missed 1945 |
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| 5 (5) | 3 (3) | Pierre Lorillon | N-N
| Yak-3 | |
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| 5 (4) | 3 (1) | Leopold Srom | 245Sq , 310Sq ;
1CsSLP | Hurricane I , Spitfire Vb ; La-5FN | |
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| 5 (5) | 2 (2) | Robert Iribarne | ;
N-N
| Yak-9 , Yak-3 | Killed 1945 |
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| 5 (2) | 2 (2) | Gabriel Mertzisen | GC III/6 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | |
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| 4 (1) | 5 (5) | Pierre Matras | GC II/1 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | |
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| 4 (4) | 4 (4) | Henri Foucaud | N-N
| Yak | Crashed 1944 |
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| 4 (4) | 4 (4) | Maurice Amarger | N-N
| Yak-9 | |
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| 4 (4) | 4 (3) | Noël Castelain | 73Sq ;
N-N
| ; Yak | Missed 1943 |
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| 4 (4) | 3 (3) | Pierre Bléton | N-N
| Yak-3 | |
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| 4 (3) | 3 (3) | Pierre Dechanet | GC III/1 ;
N-N
| ; Yak | |
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| 3 (1) | 7 (1) | Josef Stehlík | GC III/3 ;
310Sq ; 1CsSLP , 2CsSLP | MS.406 ; D.520 ;
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| 3 (2) | 4 (4) | Pierre Pouyade | ECN 4/13 ;
N-N
| ; Yak-1 | |
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| ? (5+) | Domingo Bonilia | 788IAP
| Yak-1 | ||
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| 3 (3) | 5? | Jean-Louis Tulasne | N-N
| ; Yak | |
Normandie-Niemen Yak fighters.
 Marcel Lefevre |  Jacques Andre |  Marcel Albert |  Roland de la Poype |
Normandie-Niemen pilots: Marcel Albert, Roland de la Poype, Marcel Lefevre, Joseph Risso.
Thanx for the info to Andrés Fierro, Alexander Abramov and Allan Magnus.
If you can add any data to this table, please e-mail me.
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