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Gaston Venot is an aviator, general of the French army corps and large-Cross of the Legion of Honor, born in 1904 and died in 1979.

Born the In Asnières where his parents hold a modest fruit and vegetable store, Gaston Venot studied at the Sainte Geneviève college in Asnières and then at Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He was received at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr in 1924 (Rif promotion). He completed his training at the Avord Aviation Practical School. Appointed at the Chartres air base, he is commander of the 4 It is squadron in 1924 [ first ] And becomes one of the first piloting specialists without visibility. In 1937, he was received at the entrance exam to the Higher Air School (2 It is promotion). It is transferred to 3 It is Bureau of the Grand Air Headquarters in 1937 [ first ] . He is assigned to the general inspection of the air force and then first is Office of the Air Force Staff in 1940.

In 1942 [ first ] , Lieutenant – Colonel Venot is at the head of the Guyenne bombing group based in Meknes in Morocco.
After the Allied landing of November 1942, he left for England with the Guyenne group installed on the base of Elvington, in the Yorshire, under English command [ 2 ] . On the return from a bombing mission, he was seriously injured on September 10, 1944 and the only survivor of his crew. He takes command of the Elvington base after seven months of hospital.

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After the war [ first ] , he is successively under chief of chief; He was appointed brigadier general at 43 and held the office of head of the Air Force personnel from August 1948, then commanded the 3 It is Aerial region in Bordeaux in 1952. In 1953, appointed Division General, he became Deputy Chief of Staff of the Allied Air Force Center-Europe in Fontainebleau [ first ] . In 1956, with the rank of general of the army, he was successively commander of the air defense of the territory, and in 1957 major general of the Air Force. In 1959, he was admitted to the reserve section. It is recalled to the activity to sit on the Air Inquiry Commission in Metropolitan France from 5 to 31 Mail 1961. It is made up of the Legion of Honor in 1962 [ 3 ] He withdrew with his wife [ n 1 ] . In the village of Corpeau, in Côte-d’Or. He has two thousand fruit trees planted as a arborist for fifteen years in the Mount Mount Meix domain. He died the has Dijon [ 4 ] . He is buried in the Corpeau cemetery [ 5 ] .

He is the father of Lieutenant Gérard Venot, fighter pilot, who died in service ordered at the controls of a super saber F100 [ 6 ] and Professor Alain Venot.

  • Sub-lieutenant: 1926
  • lieutenant : 1928
  • Captain: 1933
  • commandant: 1939
  • lieutenant-colonel: 1943
  • colonel: 1945
  • Air brigade general: 1948
  • General of air divisions: 1953
  • Airline general: 1956

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  1. ↑ A B C D and E ‘ Historical Air Force Service »
  2. ↑ Jean Calmel, Night pilots , Aris, Table Ronde, , 243 p. , page 1, 16, 224, 225
  3. ↑ ‘ General Stehlin yesterday farewell to the Dijon air base and handed over the Grand-Cross of the Legion of Honor to General Venot », The public good , Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, 1963 .
  4. ↑ Departmental Archives of Hauts-de-Seine, commune of Asnières, year 1904, birth certificate n O 563, view of 147/168, with marginal death mention
  5. ↑ ‘ Yesterday in Corpeau the Air Force and the population paid a final tribute to the general of the Air Corps Gaston Venot. », The public good ,
  6. ↑ ‘ General Venot’s son kills himself aboard a super saber », The world ,

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