Marcel Bigeard (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl biʒaʁ]; February 14, 1916 – June 18, 2010), personal radio call-sign "Bruno", was a French military officer...
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Bigeard cap (French: casquette Bigeard) is a field cap worn by the French Army and several others. It was allegedly invented by French General Marcel...
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victims came to be known as "Bigeard's shrimp" (crevettes Bigeard), after one of the paratrooper commanders, Marcel Bigeard. During the Malagasy Uprising...
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during the war Marcel Bigeard's troops were accused of practicing "death flights", whose victims were called crevettes Bigeard (fr), "Bigeard shrimp". "Gégène"...
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against him on charges of torture, claiming they were amnestied. General Marcel Bigeard, who had denied employing torture for forty years, finally also admitted...
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Parachute Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard and FLN’s Commando 41 (‘Ali Khodja’) under Si Azzedine. Bigeard and his regiment were sent to hunt down...
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French geologist Marcel Bich (1914–1994), French manufacturer of ballpoint pens Marcel Bigeard (1916–2010), French Army general Marcel Bouyer (1920–2000)...
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confrontations in Timimoun between the French Armed Forces led by General Marcel Bigeard and native Méharistes whom defected over to the National Liberation...
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were called "crevettes Bigeard [fr]" 'Bigeard shrimp' after General Marcel Bigeard, who allegedly ordered the procedure. Bigeard put his victims' feet...
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officered by many veterans of the Indochina War, including Colonels Marcel Bigeard, Roger Trinquier, Fossey-François and Yves Godard (chief of staff),...
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and several of his subordinates, likely including Roger Trinquier and Marcel Bigeard. The Algiers putsch of 1958 began when the current government suggested...
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Jacques Massu. Saadi Yacef has said that Mathieu was based more on Marcel Bigeard, although the character is also reminiscent of Roger Trinquier. Accused...
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get Anthony Quinn for the lead. Quinn's character is loosely based on Marcel Bigeard, the actual commander in French Indochina, who led the unit that was...
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Chergui. The footage was taken in El Biar at then Colonel Bigeard's command post. Marcel Bigeard personally interrogated Ben M'hidi, and according to him...
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city after the capture of Ben M'hidi by paratroopers under Colonel Marcel Bigeard, Ben M'hidi was later killed while imprisoned by soldiers of Paul Aussaresses...
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of the French Armed Forces were commanded by Jacques Massu, Buchond, Marcel Bigeard, Paul Aussaresses. Other Legion offensives in the mountains in 1959...
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American film director Mamady Doumbouya, Guinean Colonel Dick Applegate Marcel Bigeard Christian de Castries Geneviève de Galard – nurse at the Battle of Dien...
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the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024. "Prise de tête Marcel Bigeard, un soldat propre ?". L'Humanité (in French). 24 June 2000. Archived...
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31 March, Langlais told Major Marcel Bigeard, who was leading the defense at Eliane 2, to fall back from Eliane 4. Bigeard refused, saying "As long as I...
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unsatisfactory for many members of the French high command. General Marcel Bigeard was also against the idea of relying on foreign weapons; while visiting...
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recipients of U.S. gallantry awards Russian Expeditionary Force in France Marcel Bigeard Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Pierre Jeanpierre Pierre Segretain List of...
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command the 10th Parachute Regiment. The character was modeled on Colonel Marcel Bigeard. The Centurions was highly successful in France at the time of its writing...
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Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment of Fourcade and the 3rd RPC of colonel Bigeard later replaced by Colonel Trinquier. These five regiments patrolled on...
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Pass of June and July 1954. In an interview taped in May 2004, General Marcel Bigeard (6th BPC) argues that "one of the deepest mistakes done by the French...
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lieutenant, businessman and politician Antoine Avinin Lieutenant General Marcel Bigeard Foreign Legion general Bernard Saint-Hillier Foreign Legion Lieutenant...
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Zerrouky, E. (24 June 2000). Le Hyaric, Patrick (ed.). "Prise de tête Marcel Bigeard, un soldat propre ?". L'Humanite (in French). Paris, France. Retrieved...
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personnel were actively involved in Vietnam in 1954. Jacques Massu (10e DP) Marcel Bigeard (6e BPC) Roger Trinquier (GCMA) Jean Sassi (GCMA) Pierre Schoendoerffer...
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an honorary Légionnaire de 1ère classe alongside Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard, the commander of the 6th Colonial Parachute Battalion. After the induction...
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awarded the Croix de Guerre by General Charles de Gaulle in March 1945. Marcel Bigeard, highly decorated French general and veteran of World War II, French...
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since 2006 Saint Gerard of Toul, bishop Antoine Augustin Calmet, monk Marcel Bigeard, French Army General Anne-Laure Blin, politician Mickaël Causse, Neuroscientist...
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