CAPTAIN COMMANDER MICLESCU GHEORGHE, KNIGHT OF THE ROMANIAN WINGS

Abstract

Descendant of a large family of Moldavian boyars, Lieutenant Commander Miclescu Gheorghe represents in the history of Romanian aeronautics a complex personality, the spirit of the perfect soldier, endowed with an boundless love of country and people, tireless in his desire to improve continuously, his career beginning as cavalry, later aerial observer and pilot, specializing as a fighter pilot. With an exceptional training, with studies and specializations at the great aviation schools in France, England, Germany, fearless and bold defender of the sky of his homeland Romania, he participated in all the battles for the defense of airspace in the Second World War , the liberation of Bessarabia and the defense of the Black Sea airspace, the defense against the Anglo-American bombings, the fight against the German bombings of Bucharest. Through the position he held as commander of Hounter Group in the operations on the front, he gave an admirable personal example to his comrades through his courage, patriotism and spirit of initiative.