The Republican Air Force
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The Republican Air Force
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Photo: https://www.visorhistoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/potez-540-Arx.-Malraux-1-2048x1350.jpg
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The early days of the Republican Air Force, initiated by writer André Malraux. The group poses in the summer of 1936 in front of a French bomber, the Potez 540. Second from the right is Paul Nothomb, great-grandson of one of Belgium's founders and brother of former minister Charles-Ferdinand. Paul was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy and later became a communist. After the Second World War he would gain fame as a writer, just like his distant cousin Amélie Nothomb.
