Jean Accart

Jean Accart (7 April 1912 in Fécamp – 19 August 1992 in La Gaude) was a French flying ace during World War II.

On 1 June 1940, while intercepting a group of Luftwaffe bombers, Accart was hit by return fire, a bullet penetrating the windscreen of his fighter and lodging in his skull.

While recovering he wrote Chasseurs du Ciel (Sky Hunters), an account of his wartime actions.

Released from military duty in November 1942, he journeyed to Spain with several students, before arriving in North Africa after the Allied liberation.

Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he became cabinet chief of the French Air Force headquarters in December 1947, and then deputy director of the flight test centre in Brétigny during March 1948.