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Air Force Commander of the Red Army Air Marshal A.A. Novikov (3rd from right) presents the award to the French pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Roland de la Poype

Air Marshal¸ Air Force Commander of the Red Army A.A. Novikov (2nd from the left) presents government awards to the French pilots

French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen regiment and their Soviet military friends. 303rd bomber air division

The French General De Gaulle presenting awards to Soviet generals

French pilots, Hero of the Soviet Union, Senior Lieutenant Roland de la Poype (on theleft) and Lieutenant Rober Marky

Pilots of the Normandy-Niemen Regiment (from left to right: Lieutenant Perrin Marcel, Junior Lieutenant Roger Sauvage, Junior Lieutenant Lemard Georges) with a photo correspondent

A French pilot and two Red Army soldiers are standing by a combat aircraft. Regiment "Normandie-Niemen"

French pilots are sitting at the woodpile. From left to right: Lieutenant Roland de la Poype; Lieutenant Albert Duran; Major, Squadron Commander Jean-Louis Tyumyan; Lieutenant Marcel Albert; Lieutenant Joseph Risso. "Normandy-Neman" squadron

Pilots of the regiment "Normandie-Neman" at the airfield

The leadership of the air army with Army General I.Kh. Baghramyan after being awarded with orders for the overthrow of the Germans near Koenigsberg. In the background are French pilots from the Normandy-Niemen regiment

Le Bourget Airport during a ceremony to mark the return of the Normandy-Niemen air regiment to its homeland (view from above)

At a meeting of French pilots with representatives of the authorities of Tula. In the second row, from left to right: the second - Pierre Pouyade, the third - Margarita Laurent, the widow of pilot Alexander Laurent, the far right - Maurice Guido

At a friendly meeting of the French delegation with representatives of the authorities of Tula. From left to right: the third is Maurice Guido, the fourth is Pierre Pouyade, the fifth is Margarita Laurent, the widow of pilot Alexander Laurent.

Pilot of the "Normandie-Niemen" regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union Pierre Pouyade with the Order of the Red Banner

The conversation of the writer I.G. Ehrenburg (on the left) with the French colonel of the air division "Normandy" Pouyarde. Oryol region 1943