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Aviator, World Wars & Contemporary Wars, Soldier in the First World War
Born Jean NAVARRE
First pilot ever to shoot against another one starting the air warfare, during World War I
Born on August 08, 1895 in Jouy-sur-Morin , France
Died on June 10, 1919 in Vélizy-Villacoublay , France
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Navarre has also worked into his mind all possible ways of arming his plane with better weapons and tried even to install rockets. In the mean time the Germans came up with a unique weapon : a synchronized machine gun firing through the propeller with a help of a mechanical switch that interrupted the firing when the propeller was passing in front of the machine gun nozzle. The Germans have thus shot down easily a huge number of allied planes until the Allies copied the plan from a downed German aircraft. The introduction of the very popular Nieuport 17 with both a synchronized and unsunchronized machine- gun balanced the situation. By that time Navarre arrived to 12 victories. He and another ace of the same character Charles Nungesser ,both reckless and systematically disobedient to their superiors, became very close friends. They were still scoring victories in the air while on the ground were also known for a number of ‘crazy’ and 'unorthodox' adventures for which they became extremely popular to the Parisian night life.
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On June the 17th, 1916 his aircraft is shot down and ends up heavily wounded on the head. He survived by miracle but he never fully recovered. The news of the death of his brother render the situation unbearable to him and started behaving in an uncoordinated manner, even being confined in a sanitorium. He was practically removed from active duty. During the celebration of the end of the war in 1918 he was killed on an accident while trying to take off and fly around the Arc of Triumph in Paris. He was only 23.
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