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Old 12 October 2007, 10:52 AM   #1
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Rare photos of Guynemer

Hi, everyone!

I was nosing around on the internet and I came across a wonder group of images of Georges Guynemer! Many of these I had never seen before. Most are head shots. They look like out-takes from a PR photo session while Guynemer was recouperating from a wound.

They can be found at the French Ministry of Culture site:

Ministčre de la culture - memoire

Enjoy!

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I tried the second link, it worked fine. Thanks for posting the link! These pictures are from better times before his combat fatigue inexorably drew him towards death´s door. He´s smiling in a few of them.

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Old 12 October 2007, 11:53 AM   #3
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Hello

Many thanks for your thread
These photos are negatives from a very well known French photograh
whose name was NADAR-Legend of some guynemer pics is in French
"bras en écharpe" which means in English i think,"arm in a sling"
at a moment when Gyunemer was certainly convalescent.
Others aviators can be seen too like Roland garros.

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Old 12 October 2007, 12:11 PM   #4
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Merci Monsieur
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Old 12 October 2007, 05:38 PM   #5
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Legend of some guynemer pics is in French
"bras en écharpe" which means in English i think,"arm in a sling"
at a moment when Gyunemer was certainly convalescent.
Now don't go getting some of us iggerant yokels all excited.
At first blush (!) it looks like lingerie is being discussed!
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Old 12 October 2007, 07:49 PM   #6
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Amazing photos! What a difference there is between this Guynemer and the later man aged by war. He looks so very young!

Thank you for the link!

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Old 13 October 2007, 10:27 AM   #7
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FliegerJG1,

I agree he does look young. I have always thought he seems to look so melancholy in most of his pictures. Have you noticed?

Thanks for the post Tom.

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