Suzanne Kohn (aviator)
Suzanne Kohn was a French aviator.
Kohn was born in Paris to a wealthy Jewish family; one of four children, her sister Antoinette would later become a noted painter and French Resistance fighter.[1]
In 1939, Kohn flew a Caudron C.600 Aiglon aircraft from Orly, France, to Madagascar. She departed on 25 May, reached Elisabethville on 13 June, and Ivato on 19 June.[2] On her return flight she stopped in Egypt, Syria and Tripolitania, Libya.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Antoinette Sasse. Rebelle, Résistante et Mécène /". www.lumieresenarts.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-18.
- ^ Ferry, Vital (2005). Ciels impériaux africains, 1911-1940: les pionniers belges et français. Le gerfaut. p. 97.
- ^ texte, Parti communiste français Auteur du (1939-05-26). "L'Humanité : journal socialiste quotidien". Retrieved 2017-02-18.