Zorn, J. - Chasseurs contre V1 (1949) Fighters against V1

Chasseurs contre V1 - Fighters against V1

By J. Zorn - Collection Patrie (1949) - Editions Rouff

The story, hardly romanticized, of Jean Maridor, French pilot of the RAF, within which he specialized in the attack of enemy ships on Spitfire. From June 1944, he specialised in V1 hunting and had 6 flying bombs and 1/2 in collaboration with Tempest. On 3 August 1944, during one of these air patrols, Captain Jean Maridor spotted a V1 heading straight for Benenden Hospital. He died destroying it.


PDF - 1949 - 26 pages - In French
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The Collection Patrie, published by Rouff, is a collection of short stories which relate, in a fictionalized way and in a spirit of propaganda, various episodes of the First World War and the Second World War.
Four different series followed each other under this or a similar title between 1917 and 1951, totalling 291 issues which were reprinted.
The first series began in February 1917 under the impetus of Frédéric Rouff and included 154 issues, the last one appearing in January 1920.
These "complete illustrated works" are small in size (20 cm x 14 cm) and contain 24 pages. They were first sold for 10 and then 30 cents. During the 1920s and 1930s, they were reprinted and sold at higher prices. The original prints are mostly characterised by poor printing on poor quality paper imposed by the restrictions of the time. One of the interests of the collection lies in the colour cover illustrations. Many of these illustrations are the work of Gil Baer, who also signed some black and white interior pages. With the exception of a few issues, these are of poor quality.
Inspired by wartime propaganda, the collection appears very Germanophobic, as shown by the titles Les Boches au Maroc and J'ai descendu mon premier Boche. The dominant themes are campaigns and battles, military units and the technical aspects of war.
Léon Groc is the literary director of the collection. He is also the most represented among the forty or so authors who have contributed to the collection. Most of them were already well known in the field of popular fiction, such as Gustave Le Rouge, Georges Spitzmuller, Georges-Gustave Toudouze or Jean Petithuguenin. For some of them, however, the passage into the collection represents a unique incursion into this field.
Following more or less the same principles as the Collection Patrie 1914-1918, the Collection Patrie 1939-1940 appeared after the start of the Second World War, followed by the Collection Patrie Libérée during the reconquest of France. The title then reverted simply to Collection Patrie, relating the exploits of the Second World War, and ended with the "Patrie" Collection Sois un homme! in 1950.
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection_Patrie