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Typical Hawaiian Girls (Beauties) Postcard.
Postcard date is written in the French style: 21st Day, December, 1908 and signed by "G Lufbery"
Author had no clue on that obscure signature "G Lufbery" until a Google Search was done.
That opened the floodgates!!
Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery (March 14, 1885 – May 19, 1918)[1] was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army Air Service in World War I, he is sometimes listed alternately as a French ace or as an American ace. Officially, all but one of his 17 combat victories came while flying in French units.
Lufbery served in the United States Army from 1907–1909 as a rifleman[10] and saw service in the Philippines.[11] He was first assigned from the recruit depot of Fort McDowell, Angel Island to Company F, 20th Infantry Regiment, at the newly established Fort Shafter, Territory of Hawaii on 13 December 1908.
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Lufbery was buried with full military honors at the Aviators Cemetery at Sebastapol, France. His remains were later removed to a place of honor at the Lafayette Memorial du Parc de Garches in Paris. Although he received credit for only 17 victories in his career, his fellow pilots related many instances when he shot down German planes that he was not credited for. His actual number of victories has been unofficially estimated at anywhere between 25 and 60.[
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