In 1916, the French army grouped its aeronautical squadrons into 24 combat groups (GC). The GC n°12 of Major Antonin Brocard adopted a stork as its emblem. An allusion to Brocard’s desire to liberate Alsace from the Germans. For the seven Stork squadrons of the group, the bird was represented differently. A stork in full flight, wings down, for the SPA3, Georges Guynemer’s, the most famous, taken over as mascot by the aircraft engine manufacturer Hispano-Suiza. Or a stork in a dive, wings folded, called the Saint-Galmier stork, for the SPA26, and a high-winged stork for the SPA103 of René Fonck.