Roger Blaizot

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name= Roger Blaizot


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born=1895
died=1981
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allegiance=flagicon|France France
branch=French Army
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rank=Général de corps d'armée
unit=French Liaison Officer to Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia
commands=1st Motorized Colonial Division
9th Colonial Division
Forces Francaises Extrême Orient
battles=World War II
First Indochina War
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Roger Charles André Henri Blaizot (1895–1981) was a French military leader, who commanded French forces during the World War II and the First Indochina War. [http://www.generals.dk/general/Blaizot/Roger-Charles-Andr%C3%A9-Henri/France.html Biography of: Blaizot, Roger-Charles-André-Henri, Lieutenant-General. (1895 – 1981)] retrieved June 26 2008] Blaizot served in Indochina through the last two years of the World War II, [Thomas, p. 943.] having been sent to command the Forces Francaises Extrême Orient by Charles de Gaulle. [Chapuis, p. 138.] Following the war, Blaizot led a fifty-member staff group to Indochina as part of a cooperation between British Special Operations Executive agents of Force 136 and the French government to ensure French retention of South East Asia, [Lawrence and Logevall, p. 109.] this having been approved by Lord Philip Mountbatten in 1943. [Duiker, p. 12.] Blaizot then went on to command the French forces in Indochina from 1948 until 1949, [Currey, p. 401.] succeeding Jean-Étienne Valluy and being succeeded himself by Marcel Carpentier. [Tucker, p. 52.]

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Printed sources:

* Bodinier, Gilbert, "La Guerre d'Indochine, 1945-1954: textes et documents", France Armée de terre, service historique, 1987.
* Chapuis, Oscar. "The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN 0313311706
* Currey, Cecil B. "Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap" Potomac Books Inc. 2005. ISBN 1574887424
* Duiker, William J. "U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina", Stanford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0804722838
* Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Fredrik Logevall, "The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis", Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 0674023714
* Thomas, Martin, "Silent Partners: SOE's French Indo-China Section, 1943-1945", "Modern Asian Studies", p. 943–976, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
* Tucker, Spencer C. "Vietnam", Routledge, 1999. ISBN 1857289226

Websites:

* [http://www.generals.dk/general/Blaizot/Roger-Charles-Andr%C3%A9-Henri/France.html Biography of: Blaizot, Roger-Charles-André-Henri, Lieutenant-General. (1895 – 1981)]