AVIATION
75 L.A.S. de Samuel, Philippe, Marc and Richard LANGLOIS, 1915-1919, to their uncle Dr Daniel BERTHELOT (4 to their uncle André Berthelot); 140 pages in various formats, some addresses and envelopes.
Correspondence from four pioneers of military aviation. Interesting collection of testimonies of the War by four brothers, grandsons of Marcellin Berthelot. Richard and Marc LANGLOIS were radio operators, Samuel pilot, and Philippe co-pilot gunner. From 1916, all four of them flew regularly, for intelligence missions or for combat. * Marc, a volunteer enlisted, incorporated on 2 September 1914 in the 7th Engineer Regiment, paid to the radio detachment of the Xth Army in December, wrote letters of great technical and historical interest. December 26-28, 1915, details on the aircraft, emission tests, the counter-attack with asphyxiating gases... March 24, 1916, about Avocourt and Verdun; visits to the front by Stéphen Pichon and Louis Barthou... April 22, details on their TSF aircraft, the 240 piece that shoots with fighter planes, their tests of oscillating circuits... 25
May, on the demolition of hangars and planes ; details on the adjustment of the planes... May 6, 1917, he had a lot of work to mount the small transmitters on the squadron's sopwith, and to install an amplifier receiver to follow the planes from the front... August 28, he joined Philippe and Samuel at their squadron: He tells of the devastation as seen from the plane... April 9, 1918: "It is fortunate that the squadron passed over Salmson for these attacks, otherwise it might have suffered twice as many casualties." May 23: "The Kraut fighters are numerous and aggressive." September 6: "The advance continues, and the air force follows the steady advance of the troops hour by hour... Samuel had an adventure with Philippe that could have ended very badly. His aircraft was hit by a full-strength shell in infantry liaison, which exploded when it hit the machine gun in front. Sam's face wa
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