Marcel Albert, 92, a widely decorated World War II flying ace hailed as a hero of the French "Normandie-Niemen" squadron based in the Soviet Union, died Monday of complications from cancer.
The office of France's veterans affairs minister, Hubert Falco, expressed condolences to Mr. Albert's former comrades and "all the Russians who consider him a great hero."
France's Ordre de la Liberation said that Mr. Albert died in Harlingen, Texas, where he moved and founded a hotel chain after the war. It said he was buried in Chipley, Fla.
