page_title: René Mouchotte
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: René Mouchotte / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Commandant-René-Mouchotte street - Paris Français&#160;: Rue du commandant-René-Mouchotte - Paris XIV et XV
context_page_description: Commandant René Mouchotte DFC was a World War II pilot of the French Air Force, who escaped from Vichy French–controlled Oran to join the Free French forces. Serving with RAF Fighter Command, he rose to command a fighter wing before being shot down and killed on 27 August 1943.
context_section_description: After the war, his diaries and flying logs were compiled into a book by Andre Dezarrois which was published in France in 1949 as "Les carnets de René Mouchotte, 1940-1943" and later as "Mes carnets : juin 1940-août 1943". In 1956 it was translated into English by Philip John Stead and published in the United Kingdom under the title The Mouchotte Diaries; by the following year, eight editions had been printed. The book was reissued in France in 2000 and in the UK in 2003.
  In Paris, a street Rue du Commandant Rene Mouchotte in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris and a nearby footbridge over the River Seine are named after him. There are two plaques in his memory at Eperlecques. A French Air Force base at Cambrai-Épinoy was named Base Aérienne 103 "Commandant René Mouchotte" in his honour. Cambrai Epinoy is no longer an active establishment, so the French Air Force Training Base at Cazaux was named after Commandant Mouchotte in September 2012. At the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London on 18 June 2013 a vitrine by Yorkshire Air Museum was unveiled in honour of Commandant René Mouchotte & the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres. The RAF headquarters in Gibraltar was renamed the Mouchotte Building on the weekend of the Battle of Britain Commemorations on 14–15 September 2013.
  Mouchotte was the subject of a BBC One television programme by Jan Leeming, shown in the United Kingdom on Inside Out on 28 January 2013 and another version filmed at Elvington in February 2013. Mouchotte's British campaign medals, including the Battle of Britain Clasp, were not presented to his family after the war and were obtained by the Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial who presented them to his sister along with footage of her brother taken in 1943, recently discovered by the Museum shortly before she died in June 2012.  Later they were officially presented to family members along with the medals of Mouchotte's friend Henry Lafont, in the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris on 13 July 2012.
caption: Rue du Commandant-René-Mouchotte in Paris, 2011
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