Ioan Dicezare Explained

Ioan Dicezare
Birth Date:12 August 1916
Birth Place:Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Death Place:Bucharest, Romania
Allegiance: Royal Romanian Armed Forces
Branch:Royal Romanian Air Force
Rank:General-locotenent (OF-8)
Unit:7th Fighter Group
1st Fighter Group
Battles:The Second World War
Awards:Order of Michael the Brave,
Iron Cross

Ioan Dicezare (August 12, 1916 in Bucharest – August 10, 2012 in Bucharest[1]) was a leading Romanian fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II.[2] He was born and died in Bucharest.

On April 22, 1943, Dicezare engaged a Soviet bomber formation and shot down one A-20 Boston, which fell behind Axis lines. He then returned to the airfield and took the group's liaison Bf-108 Taifun. He landed near the crash site and took the pilot and the observer prisoner.[3] In over 500 combat operations, he was credited with 16 confirmed victories (and 3 probable) in aerial combat.[2]

Dicezare died on 10 August 2012, at age 95. He was the last survivor of ”Grupul 7 Vânătoare” pilots who managed to escape the Stalingrad encirclement.

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  1. Claudiu Pacearcă, Doliu în aviația românească. A murit Generalul Ioan Dicezare, unul dintre ultimii piloți de vânătoare români din al doilea Război Mondial, libertatea.ro, 10 August 2012, accessed 2012-08-10
  2. Dénes Bernád, John A. Weal, Romanian Aces of World War 2, Botley, Oxfordshire: Osprey Publishing, 2003,
  3. Web site: WorldWar2.ro - CPT. Av. (R) Ioan Dicezare.

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