SAS Vallieres, Claude

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Vallieres ​

• FORENAME

Claude ​

• UNIT

3 SAS (HQ Squadron + HQ Company) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant + Capitaine ​

• NUMBER

35971 ​

• AWARD

Military Cross (GB),Legion dHonneur (Fr) ​

• PLACE

France and Holland 1944-45 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit 3 Regiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes​

true name Grebelski,Benno​

born 28.7.1910 Soroca, Romania (now Moldova)​

1932 graduated Sup'Aero aerospace engineering school​

02.1934 worked Dewoitine then Avions Marcel Bloch​

1936 director of Merignac factory (managed production of MB-174 and MB-175)​

1940 joined the Cannes technical group​

1942 joined Free French Air Force in England​

FFL June 1943​

3 RCP 1943​

Lieutenant 8.8.1943​

3 SAS (HQ Squadron) 1944 (Lt)​

Op.Moses​

3 SAS (HQ Company) 1945​

Op.Amherst​

1945 after war director of Saint-Cloud factory. (in charge of Ouragan, Mystere II and Mystere IV programs)​

1953 appointed general manager​

chairman of Avions Marcel Dassault (1965), Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1971-1986), Electronique Marcel Dassault (1962-1967), Generale de mecanique aeronautique (1971) and SABCA (1968)​

died 04.12.1989​

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