Roger Blaizot

Roger Blaizot
Born	1895
Died	1981
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	French Army
Rank	Général de corps d'armée
Unit	French Liaison Officer to Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia[1]
Commands held	1st Motorized Colonial Division 9th Colonial Division Forces Francaises Extrême Orient[1]
Battles/wars	World War II First Indochina War

Roger Charles André Henri Blaizot (1895–1981) was a French military leader, who commanded French forces during World War II and the First Indochina War.^[1] Blaizot served in Indochina through the last two years of the World War II,^[2] having been sent to command the Far East French Expeditionary Forces (Forces Francaises Extrême Orient) by Charles de Gaulle.^[3] 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,^[4] this having been approved by Lord Philip Mountbatten in 1943.^[5] Blaizot then went on to command the French forces in Indochina from 1948 until 1949,^[6] succeeding Jean-Étienne Valluy and being succeeded himself by Marcel Carpentier.^[7]

See also

• Far East French Expeditionary Forces
• C.L.I.

Notes

1. Biography of: Blaizot, Roger-Charles-André-Henri, Lieutenant-General. (1895 – 1981) retrieved June 26, 2008
2. Thomas, p. 943.
3. Chapuis, p. 138.
4. Lawrence and Logevall, p. 109.
5. Duiker, p. 12.
6. Currey, p. 401.
7. Tucker, p. 52.

References

CEFEO shoulder patch insignia bearing the "Far East" mark.

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 0-313-31170-6
• Currey, Cecil B. Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap Potomac Books Inc. 2005. ISBN 1-57488-742-4
• Duiker, William J. U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina, Stanford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8047-2283-8
• Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Fredrik Logevall, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-674-02371-4
• 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 1-85728-922-6

Websites:

• Biography of: Blaizot, Roger-Charles-André-Henri, Lieutenant-General. (1895 – 1981)