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From flying pioneer to speed records, and finally death at the hands of the Gestapo – the story of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, who died 80 years ago this day, July 14, 1944, after weeks of torture by the Nazis.
Born in the Somme village of Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle (80703) on 11 July 1891, Joseph later went to school in Amiens before finding work as a mechanic and welder in the Minet factory near Paris. It was there, in 1910, that he took a prototype ‘Zenith’ aircraft for a spin without ever having had a flying lesson. Thus, he became one of those magnificent men in their flying machines, going on to fly Blériots.
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