Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (born 1888)

Roland Garros (aviator)

20th-century early French pilot

Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats such as the first-ever airplane crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in 1913. He joined the French army and became one of…