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Christian Georges Chapman

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Honored to have served with Chris Chapman

I had the honor of serving as Press Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris when Chris Chapman was our Deputy Chief of Mission. It was only in reading his obituary that I realized what a life he had led. He was too modest to boast about it. I will always remember him as a most intelligent, fair and generous person whom I greatly admired. I am sorry to learn of his passing, but proud that we were able to work together.

Christopher Henze le samedi 01 avril 2017 - Demander un contact

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"Christian A. Chapman, a U.S. diplomat who served in hot spots including Southeast Asia and survived an assassination attempt in Paris during a three-decade career in the Foreign Service, died Nov. 27 at his home in Washington. He was 95.

The cause was dementia, said his son, Hillary Chapman.

The son of an American father and a French mother, Mr. Chapman served with the Free French forces in World War II before joining the diplomatic ranks in 1950. His first assignment was as a consular officer in Casablanca during the waning days of French rule in Morocco.

He later served as an economic officer in Beirut and as an assistant to the U.S. ambassador to Iran, arriving shortly after Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was deposed in a U.S.-backed coup in 1953.

Mr. Chapman spent the late 1950s in Vietnam and then Laos, where he was chief political officer. After postings in Luxembourg, Paris, Brussels and Washington, he returned to Laos in the mid-1970s. As chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane, he helped manage the crisis when demonstrators with the communist organization Pathet Lao seized control of U.S. buildings..."

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Laurent Laloup le mardi 27 décembre 2016 - Demander un contact

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Ottobre 1941: piloti francesi in formazione presso la RAF...

"Octobre 1941: 3e brigade en instruction dans la Royal Air Force.
N° 3 B Flight N°1 Squadron 10 ITW à SCARBOROUGH.
de gauche à droite
TUMMERS, BOURDIN, ROSA, LEPROU.
LEGOFF, POIRIER, DEGAIL, Henri MOUREAUX, CHALLIER, CHAPMAN.
KRASKER, ALLIGNOL, HOMOLLE, GRONIER, X, X, DUBOURGEL, GROUX."

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Cristina Contilli le dimanche 24 juillet 2016

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"... New Jersey Men Enlist Recently enlisted in the Forces Libre:; are two New Jeiseyites, Cristian Chapman and Peter Quien-gec. Chapman attended Princeton University for two years, but, as he says: "It doesn't do much good to learn how to be a lawyer if. after this war, the only law is Hitler's." He's now training to he a pilot, and bin only regret is that it takes so long before he will receive those coveted wings..."

version September 21, 1941
Harrisburg Sunday Courier from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 

Laurent Laloup le jeudi 14 juillet 2016 - Demander un contact

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Etat sommaire des services militaires.

CHAPMAN Christian, Georges
Civil,jeune Français vivant aux USA, fait une demande d'engagement en janvier 1941 à la délégation française de New-York.
Mis en route sur la Grande-Bretagne, débarque à Liverpool le 5 juillet 1941, dirigé sur le dépôt central de la France libre de Londres.
Engagé dans les FAFL comme soldat de 2ème classe (divers) à compter de cette date avec le matricule 30.743.
Mis en route sur la compagnie de l'air de Camberley, y commence sa formation d'élève pilote dès le mois d'août.
Continue son instruction, d'abord en Grande-Bretagne puis au Canada à partir de mai 1942. Breveté pilote (numéro 210/GB) le 28 août 1942, il est nommé sergent avec prise de rang du 20 août.
Regagne ensuite la Grande-Bretagne, suit encore des stages d'instruction avant d'être affecté au 340 Squadron Ile de France qu'il rejoint le 24 mars 1943.
Sergent-chef depuis le 1er mars 1944, il est porté disparu en opérations le 27 février 1945 au cours d’une reconnaissance armée sur les lignes ennemies. Son Spitifire est atteint par la Flak alors qu’il attaque un objectif au sol. Il est obligé de sauter en parachute et son équipier l’aperçoit sain et sauf au sol. Fait prisonnier il ne sera libéré que le 1er mai 1945.
Promu lieutenant pour compter du 2 mai 1945, il est démobilisé et renvoyé dans ses foyers le 17 novembre 1945.
Médaille militaire en octobre 1945, Croix de guerre 1939-45 avec trois citations, médaille de la Résistance française en avril 1946, il sera fait chevalier de la Légion d’honneur par décret de juillet 1947.
Totalisait 686 heures de vol dont 182 heures de vol de guerre en 130 missions.

NB : Ce n'est pas Christian CHAPMAN qui est sur la photo de groupe des mécaniciens du 340 Squadron Ile de France mais le quartier maître Turner CHAPMAN.

Yves MORIEULT le jeudi 14 janvier 2010

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Photo transférée dans la pages de Turner, Mat, Jacques Chapman 

Merci !

"Finally I would like to salute Mr. Christian Chapman, board member emeritus, who, by the way, as a young man in 1941 left college and went to England, eventually joining the Free French Air Force, which was at that time part of the Royal Air Force. He became a Spitfire fighter pilot covering the Normandy landings and the onslaught on Germany until, as he succinctly puts it, he was shot down in January of 1945. So we have a real hero with us tonight."

Alliance Française de Washington

Laurent Laloup le dimanche 09 septembre 2007 - Demander un contact

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" Comment by Mr. Christian Chapman, former fighter pilot of the group Ile de France.

For the commemoration of "l'Appel du 18 Juin" at the French Embassy

Washington, June 18th, 1996
"I am an American who had the privilege of serving with the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres from June 1941 to June 1945. That is the reason I am honored to be with you today.

It seems appropriate to me that an American testify on this French national day to the significance of l'Appel for Americans.

To understand, you have to recall the times. On June 18, 1940, Hitler had conquered Europe - from Poland to the Atlantic, from Norway to the border of Spain which was controlled by a friendly dictator. Italy of course was in the hands of another friendly dictator.

The real shock, however, of that tragic spring was the fall of France. The collapse in six weeks of the French Army - considered since WWI the best in the world - created a sense of fear and helpessness and hopelessness. Nothing, it seemed, could stop Hitler.

The Soviet Union had made a 180 degree political turn in August 1939, permitting Hitler to attack Poland and remaining to all evidence an ally of Germany.

There was England where pacifism in the '30's had a strong hold on people - as in France, both countries living in the traumatized memory of WWI. It is well to remember that when WWII broke out in 1939, it was but a brief 21 years since the end of the previous great war that was to be the war that ended all wars. Think about it. What would have been the reaction of all of us if another war had broken out in 1976?

In June 1940, England was not only woefully unprepared but also had lost, in the retreat through Dunkirk, a major portion of its military equipment. The island was frighteningly vulnerable.

The US had not yet recovered from the great Depression. Unemployment stood at about 25% and there were strong neutrality laws in vigor seeking to prevent the US from becoming involved in foreign wars. Versailles had left a residue of disillusionment.

It really took an act of faith beyond any rational analysis and a will of iron to believe that Nazi Germany could be stopped.

And so, in this dark time of dispair, the clarion call to arms sounded by an unknown, freshly appointed French General with the predestined name of de Gaulle, caught the popular imagination and never lost its magic. Throughout the war, the American people viewed him as the embodiment of the spirit of liberty and resistance to Hitler, the very raison d'être of the whole war. An individual standing up to tyranny. An individual representing a great country that had been the birthplace of liberty. A man of courage and principal.

The support of Americans for de Gaulle held throughout the war and in fact moderated the poor personal relationship between him and FDR.

I am therefore proud to join you today in remembering that historical moment of June 1940, when France through an unknown general upheld the idea of freedom. That is what Americans expect of France."

Embassy of France in the US - June 18th, 1996"

www.ambafrance-us.org 

Laurent Laloup le dimanche 09 septembre 2007 - Demander un contact

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Mrs Chapman - Mathey - Dr Jaeger

Source : maridor.free.fr 

Laurent Laloup le dimanche 09 septembre 2007 - Demander un contact

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