Caroline Aigle
Engineer, Military Person
1974 – 2007
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Who was Caroline Aigle?
Commandant Caroline Aigle was a French aviator who achieved a historical first when, at the age of 25, she became the first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force. Her promising military career was cut short by death from cancer seven years later. She was posthumously awarded the Médaille de l'Aéronautique.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1974
Montauban - Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Lived in
- Montauban
- Died
- Aug 21, 2007
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on July 23, 2013
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