Bigeard, Marcel
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Birthname | Marcel Maurice Bigeard | ||||
born on | 14 February 1916 at 01:00 (= 01:00 AM ) | ||||
Place | Toul, France, 48n41, 5e54 | ||||
Timezone | CET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
French military, a General and State Secretary of Defense.
He was one of France's most decorated career soldiers, known as the "world's best paratrooper." Charles DeGaulle dubbed him a hero; he had been wounded several times and escaped from prisoner-of-war camps on three different occasions. He fought with French Resistance forces during WWII, parachuted with his troops into Indochina, fighting the Vietnamese in the early 1950s and led his paratroopers into Algiers in 1957.
He died at age 94 on June 18, 2010 in Toul, France.
Events
Source Notes
Barbault quotes B.R. in CA No.67 and No.75
Categories
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Military : Combat
- Vocation : Military : Honors (Decorated paratrooper)
- Vocation : Military : Military career (General)
- Vocation : Military : POW/ MIA
- Vocation : Military : Wounded
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee (State Secretary of Defence)
Categories:
- 1916 births
- Birthday 14 February
- Birthplace Toul, FR
- Sun 23 Aquarius
- Moon 27 Gemini
- Asc 12 Scorpio
- 2010 deaths
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Military : Combat
- Vocation : Military : Honors
- Vocation : Military : Military career
- Vocation : Military : POW/ MIA
- Vocation : Military : Wounded
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee