RAMOS PÉREZ
Crescencio Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila) 1901 - Madrid 1989
Crescencio Ramos joined the Telegraph Regiment Number 1 from February 20, 1921, amounts to Cape May and July 25 as a telegraph sent to Melilla 2nd. In Aixa Aix position, despite being hit by two grenades, was able to send a message heliograph. For this action he was awarded the Military Medal Pin Melilla (ROC June 7, 1923). Africa continued to serve until he is accepted as a student in the Pilot Course to be held at the School of Civil Carabanchel and after the training period involved is the title of Military Pilot in 1925, and was posted to Getafe. In 1926 Nador is sent to the 1st Squadron Bristol where he is involved in the suppression of the rebellion in the Protectorate until the end of the African campaign. He joined Getafe, which performs reconnaissance and photography practices he was awarded the Peace Medal and the Medal of Maria Cristina with distinctive red.
In early 1930 he moved to Los Alcazares (Murcia) to the machine gun course Bombers, whose title is given the same year. In 1932 starts the mechanics course that ends in February 1933. After a brief stay in Sidi Ifni joins the Military Preparatory School Avila was promoted to lieutenant. In 1935, the squadron is assigned to No. 3. In July 1936, was aimed at Observer School Four Winds, which opposed the military uprising. Performed various services on the front of Talavera de la Reina, being shot down by Italian fighters. Promoted to Captain in 1937 assumed command of a squadron of light bombers Polikarpov RZ Natacha with which operated on the southern front and the offensive Huesca. In the fall of 1937 he Aviation Elementary School (Sewell and El Palmar) and then was assigned to the School of Polimotores of Totana, where he remained until the end of the war rising to the rank of Major.
On the morning of March 24, 1939, Ramos manning a twin-engine de Havilland Dragon, was exiled from Spain being prominent Republican politicians and military leaders, landing in Oran (Algeria French.) From there, along with other prominent members of the Communist Party of Spain travel to the USSR, where Ramos was sent to work in a factory and in 1941 he was transferred to a colony of English children who taught class. During the Second World War successive relocations live fleeing the German advance, finally settling on a farm cooperative. At the end of World War II, he moved to Kiev (Ukraine) together with other members of the English colony and marry there. Shortly afterwards, seeking a warmer climate, the family moved to the Caucasus, where the former aviator went to work in a shoe factory. In 1977 initiated efforts to be recognized military seniority and spend their retirement in Spain, settling two years later in Madrid and in joining the Flyers Association of the Republic (ADAR). Under Law 37/1984 of 22 October he acknowledged his employment as an officer of Aviation of the Republic, granting him the rank of colonel in the English Air Force. He died in Madrid.
© Carlos Lázaro Ávila-Flyers Association of the Republic (ADAR)
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