St-Ex.
I've read 'Wind Sand and Stars' and was utterly enthralled, a true pilot ( and handling a P-38 is not a job for fairies, seems to me ) - but I have a nasty feeling that St.Ex had the heart of a lion, but maybe not the fighting skills of one - there was also a drink issue which he had to fight hard and use all his influence while grounded to convince the local S/C he had overcome.
His loss sadly reminds me of Warburton, the spectaularly successful recce' pilot from Malta who found out the hard way that such missions over Europe were a whole different ball-game with much more nasty defences.
I don't beleive the term ' traitor ' should be breathed in connection with Antoine St.Ex, but then again I never exactly had the honour to fly with him, did I ?!