There is a scenario about this famous group of pilots... A little reminder for the player?ColonelY wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:46 pm Hey, do you remember the famous Normandie-Niemen?
Historical event on July 15, 1944 (either in a scenario or as a campaign event, we'll see!):
The facts... as basis for text event or suggestion of text... anyway, here is it:
In August 1943, all the French technical personnel were transferred to the Middle East and replaced by Soviet personnel (it must be admitted that the French mechanics were not used to working in temperatures of -30°C...). As a result, the "Normandie" lost its companions of the first hour, but gained this specificity which contributed to forge its symbolic dimension: French pilots and Russian mechanics united in the same unit. This was a first in history.
A new tragedy occurred on July 15, 1944: Lieutenant Maurice de Seynes, who was the victim of a fuel leak, rushed back to the Doubrovka airfield from where he had taken off a few minutes earlier. Blinded by the gasoline fumes that invaded his cockpit, he tried in vain several times to land. The Soviets ordered him to jump.
De Seynes refused because he did not want to abandon his mechanic Vladimir Bielozoub to a certain death, as it is commonly done for short trips from one field to another. And Bielozoub does not have a parachute...
After several other unsuccessful attempts, the Yak 9 crashes and explodes, killing its two occupants.
The Parisian aristocrat and the Volga peasant were buried next to each other in Doubrovka. The sacrifice of Maurice de Seynes had an enormous impact in the USSR and will go down in the history books as a symbol of the unfailing friendship between France and Russia.
Picture(s) here (at least the one with the French pilot and the Russian mechanic ):
https://www.herodote.net/12_novembre_19 ... 421112.php
Or perhaps this may rather be represented like two events in a row... the first one with some cool picture and as text about the first paragraph, more "generic". And the second one about our two famous guys.
Rather cool, I would say; and there hasn't been much talk of snow or frost so far in this campaign...
THE (main) picture of interest for us is a little after the middle of the webpage (scrolling down, I mean)... the one with the two guys on the photo.