Jean-Étienne Valluy

Jean-Étienne Valluy (born May 15, 1899 in Rive-de-Gier , † January 4, 1970 in Paris ) was a French army officer and general . His most important posts were the brief supreme command of the French expeditionary corps in the Indochina War and the supreme commander of NATO in Central Europe.

Life

Valluy joined the army in 1917 at the age of seventeen as a simple soldier. In the First World War he was awarded the Croix de guerre . He was proposed for the Saint-Cyr Military School after the war and rose rapidly in rank.

In 1940 Valluy was in the rank of Commandant Operations Officer of the XXI. Corps. In the course of the fall of France, he was captured in 1940 and repatriated in 1941. Valluy joined the Forces françaises libres . In 1944 he was Chief of Staff of the 1st French Army under Jean de Lattre de Tassigny . In 1945 he took over command of the 9 ^e division d'infanterie coloniale (9th colonial infantry division ).

Valluy ordered the bombardment of Haiphong during the pacification of Indochina in 1946 . Valluy tried in 1947 in Operation Léa and Operation Ceinture, which failed to smash the Viet Minh in their retreat in the Viet Bac . Valluy was replaced by Marcel Carpentier in 1949 .

From 1956 to 1960 Valluy was commander in chief of NATO troops in Central Europe.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fredrik Logevall: Embers of War. The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Paperback edition. Random House, New York NY 2013, ISBN 978-0-375-75647-4 , p. 168.
2. ↑ Fredrik Logevall: Embers of War. The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Paperback edition. Random House, New York NY 2013, ISBN 978-0-375-75647-4 , pp. 200-205.

predecessor	Office	successor
Alphonse Juin	Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe 1956–60	Maurice Challe