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Old 7th October 2010, 01:32
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
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Re: Decorations of Bernard Dupérier

Given that Duperier first led a French squadron, then when in a headquarters volunteered for being dropped in France to fight with the Resistance and was wounded there, he very probably was decorated at least once during the war.

I won't say that it is or was "easy" to become a "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur", but for example, most French officers killed in September 1939, and a part of the lower ranks having suffered the same fate, received posthumously this award.
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