DIEUDONNE COSTES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005249146
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-00983
• Publication Date: July 29, 1944

L2.1262 July 29, 1944
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FICHE RENSEIGNEIBNTS sur DIE~TE COSTES
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Nom....: COSTES
Prenom : DIEUDONNE
Nd le 4 Novembre 1892 e n FRANCE
a SEPTFONDS ( TARN et GARONNE.)
Nationalite : FRANCAIS
Professions : Ingenieur Aviateur .
Ingenieur des Arts at Metiers ( Boole AIX.)
Administrateur de la Firma " HISPANO-SUIZA."
Situation militaire : Lieutenant Colonel de Reserve .
Adresses : Do Juin a Ootobre 1943 : Hotel PARK LANE - 299 Park
Avenue - NEW YORK City.
Depuis Decembre 1943 : 120 West 57eme.rue NEW YORK'C.
A toujours travailld dansl'Industrie aeronautique.: Simultanement
aux Urines BREGUET et HISPANO-SUIZA jusqu'en 1933 , at seulement
a la Societe HISPANO-SUM de 1933 a 1939 .
Est entre sur Is territoire des ETATA UNIS fin Tuin 1943
A demand' , on Soptembro 1943 , a servir dans les Forces Aeriennes
Francaises en Afrique c'_L: Nor1
Mobilise Is 20 Novembre 1943
Demobilise le 31 Decembre 1943 , sans avoir rejoint,1' A.F.N.
mari .
Technician specialise do l'Aviation pour la mise au point des mote
et des Avions
Francaise par mariage - Reside actuellement a NKVJ YORK avec son.
lite' RUSSE , nee a TIFLIS ( Russie.).le 19 Janvier 1901 - Devenuc
Liber( en Juin 1940
Parle 1'Anglais at 1'Espagnol , mais fort incorrectement
Marie' en Aout 1929 , a GRENOBLE , avec VATCHNAZE MARY , de nationa
Affects pendant le Guerre 1939/1940 a ltEcole de l'Air de VERSAILLE:
Pils de COS'I'ES Urbain at de VAISSIE Noemie - Decedes
Appe16 sous les Drapeaux en 1913 - Classe 1912 -Bureau de la SEINE.,
Le 26 Juillet 1944
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Name:
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Information memo on Dieudonne Costes
Submitted to the O.S.S.
COSTES
DIEUDONNE
November 4, 1892, in FRANCE at SEPTFONDS (TARN at GARONNE)
FRENCH
Aviation Engineer
Engineer of Arts and Crafts (AIX School)
Administrative officer of the "HISPANO-SUIZA" Company.
Lieutenant Colonel in the Reserves
June to October 19143: Hotel PARKLANE, 299 Park Avenue,
NEW YORK CITY
Since December 19113-. 120 West 57th St., NEW YORK CITY.
Miscellaneous Information
Son of COSIES, Urbain, and of VAISSIE', Noemie-Both&eeased
Called to the colors in 1913 - Class of 1912 - Office othe Seine
Attached during the war 1.939/19110 to the Air School AILLES
Freed in June 19140
Speaks English and Spanish, but very incori , 1y
Married in August 1929, at GRENOBLE, to MAR
born at TIFLIS (Russia) on January 19, I.
VAS TCHNAZE;\of RUSSIAN nationality,
marriage. Is living at present in NEW YORK with her husband.
Aviation technician specialist in tuning of engines and airplanes
Has always worked in the aeronautical industry: Simultaneously in the
BREGUET and HISPANO-SUIZA plants until 1933, and in the HISPANO-SUIZA
COMPANY alone from 1933 to 1939.
He entered the UNITED STATES end of June 19113
He applied, in September 1943, for service in the Frencir Air Forces in North
Africa
Called to service November 20, 19113
Discharged from service December 31, 19143 without having joined the French Air Forces
July 26, 19444
Translated by:
Ella Mims
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