Pierre Pouyade was a French Air Force general, World War II flying ace, and a commander of the Normandie-Niemen squadron. By the end of the War he had scored eight solo victories and two group victories, all but one on the Eastern Front.
Commandant Pierre Pouyade
Fighter Squadron 2/30 Normandie-Niemen
Fighter Squadron 2/30 Normandie-Niemen is a French Air and Space Force fighter squadron which flies the Dassault Rafale C from BA 118 Mont-de-Marsan Air Base. During a dormant period in 2009, the squadron was equipped with Dassault Mirage F1CT fighters and stationed at the BA 132 Colmar-Meyenheim Air Base.
The regiment in Moscow in 2010
Two Mirage F1s in 1986; the plane nearest the camera belonged to the squadron.
The squadron's Yak-3 fighters in Reims in 1945
A Yak 3 (01) at Paris–Le Bourget Airport's Musée de l'air et de l'espace; its spinner is the French tricolour.