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"Cat's Eyes" – John Cunningham, Second World War British night fighter ace (a nickname he didn't like) "Cenaze"(Turkish, Corpse – Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottomans, Veteran Commander of Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) [5] "Chancre Jack" – Chiang Kai-Shek, political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China
General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps he get the nicknames "the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol" by Napoleon and the "Schwarzer Teufel" (Black Devil) by Austrian troops during the Second Italian Campaign. His son, Alexandre Dumas, is one of France's most widely read authors of all time. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte: 1763–1844 French
"Dizzy" – H. R. Allen, RAF fighter ace and author [10] "Dogs" – John Dundas, RAF Battle of Britain fighter ace [11] "Dogsbody" – Douglas Bader, RAF fighter ace (radio callsign while Wing Commander of Tangmere) "Dolfo" – Adolf Galland, German fighter ace "Dookie" – Jenna Dolan, first woman to fly the AV-8B Harrier II in combat [12]
When the system began the names were assigned by the Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC), made up of the English-speaking allies of the Second World War, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and two non-NATO countries, Australia and New Zealand. The ASCC names were adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense and then NATO.
Jacques Levi, b 1899 Nice France, d 1971, Panama City Panama Marcel Langer (French Resistance) (1903–1943) Joseph Laniel (1889–1975) Madeleine Lavigne (1912–1945), Isabelle, agent of the Special Operations Executive; Jacques Lecompte-Boinet (1905–1974) Édouard Le Jeune (1921–2017), former Senator; André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986)
France Multirole M: 41 [3] 12 on order [3] AWACS; Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye: United States AEW&C 3 [3] 3 on order [3] Maritime patrol; Bréguet 1150 Atlantic: France ASW / Maritime patrol 22 [3] Dassault Falcon 20: France Maritime patrol 5 [3] Dassault Falcon 50: France Maritime patrol 8 [3] Dassault Falcon 2000: France Maritime patrol 12 on ...
On 10 September 2020, it assumed its current name, the French Air and Space Force, to reflect an "evolution of its mission" into the area of outer space. [ 2 ] The number of aircraft in service with the French Air and Space Force varies depending on the source; the Ministry of Armed Forces gives a figure of 658 aircraft in 2014.
In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the second world war onwards are sorted into generations , from 1 to 5, based on technological level.