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Oliver Le Boutillier [USA]

Name:Oliver Colin "Boots" Le Boutillier
Country:United States
Rank:Captain
Service:Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Air Force
Squadrons:9N (RNAS)
209 (RAF)
Victories:10
Born:1895
Place of Birth:
Died:12 May 1983
Place of Death:Las Vegas, Nevada
Oliver Le Boutillier

Notes
Le Boutillier participated in the dogfight in which Manfred von Richthofen was killed. When the war ended, he returned to the United States where he became a skywriter and gave Amelia Earhart her first lesson on twin engined aircraft. As a Hollywood stunt pilot, Le Boutillier appeared in eighteen movies including "Hell's Angels." In all, he had 19,000 hours of flight time when his flying career finally ended.

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