Charles Gossage Grey

Air Service, United States Army Distinguished Service Cross Aeronautical Medal Legion of Honour Resistance Medal Golden Cross of Merit Order of the White Rose of Finland WWII: Volunteer MI-6, OSS, French resistance Réseau F-2.

Captain Charles Gossage Grey (June 20, 1894 – March 6, 1987) was an American World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

While leading a patrol of three machines, Captain Grey observed a formation of our bombing planes hard pressed by 12 of the enemy.

Both Charles and Cornelia were dismayed by the isolationist stance of the United States in the face of the German onslaught across the European continent, and they immediately volunteered their services in the defense of their country of adoption, not withstanding their U.S. citizenship.

Activities included organizing the evacuation of SIS station in Paris, and its commanders "Biffy Dunderdale" and Sir Peter Smithers June 14–23, 1940, via Bordeaux.

[citation needed] In 1942 Grey became an early member of the Office of Strategic Services,[6] and was active in its X-2 counter espionage division, based in Lisbon Portugal.

He died of his injuries at JFK Hospital in Atlantis, Florida on 6 March 1987, and was interred in Paris, in the Cimetière de Montparnasse.

1916-17 Mexican Border War, Grey reporting for The Chicago Evening Post"
LT Charles G. Grey Flight Commander 3rd Flight 213th Squadron, 3rd Pursuit Group, Vaucouleurs, France, September 1918
Charles Gossage Grey in Finland standing in front of an aircraft flanked by two Finnish government officials
Inscribed cigarette case gift by members of MI-6 SIS team Paris, France 1940
Charles Grey, President "L'Association de l'Escadrille Lafayette" 1982.