Commando ponchardier
The Commando Ponchardier was a colonial unit of the French armed forces from 1945 to 1946.
In 2015, Commando Ponchardier was re-established as a special unit of the French Navy .
history
The paratrooper association was founded in 1945 by Admiral Henri Nomy based on the model of the British Special Air Service . The commandant was the corvette captain and later Admiral Pierre Ponchardier. The unit was originally intended to fight the Japanese in French Indochina during World War II and fought against the Vietnamese resistance movement Việt Minh in the Saigon region from late 1945 to mid-1946 .
The most famous member of the association in the German-speaking area was the later journalist Peter Scholl-Latour .
The Commando Ponchardier was re-established on September 11, 2015 as the seventh military unit of the Commandos Navy . The new special unit became part of the Force maritime des fusiliers marins et commandos ( FORFUSCO ) command of the marine infantry and commando units .
literature
- Jean-Pierre Bernier: Le commando des tigres, les paras du commando Ponchardier: Indochine 1945-1946. Grancher, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-73390-500-7 .