Albert Deullin

Who was Albert Deullin?

Capitaine Albert Louis Deullin was a World War I flying ace credited with twenty aerial victories. By war's end, he had risen to command of a fighter wing.

Deullin scored his first triumph on 10 February 1916 while piloting a two-seater Maurice Farman for MF 62. He switched to Escadrille N3 as a Nieuport fighter pilot. He scored ten aerial victories in exactly another year, with triumph eleven coming on 10 February 1917. He then was transferred to command 73 Escadrille and began scoring for them. Over the next fourteen months, he downed nine more enemy planes, with the last falling on 19 May 1918. He was promoted to higher command in 1918, to leadership of Group de Combat 19.

Deullin died in a flying accident at Villacoublay on 29 May 1923. He was testing a prototype of a new airplane.