Marcel Alessandri

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Marcel Jean Marie Alessandri (born July 23, 1895 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † December 23, 1968 in Paris ) was a French general. He served in both world wars and in the Indochina War .

Life

Alessandri entered the Saint-Cyr Military School in 1914 . At the end of the First World War , he held the rank of captain. In 1930 he began general staff training. In 1939 Alessandri was posted to French Indochina . Alessandri remained as an officer in the colonial troops loyal to Vichy in the colony, which came under Japanese influence. In 1943 Alesandri was promoted to general. After the Japanese took full power in 1945, Alessandri tried to build a resistance base with 6,000 soldiers in Dien Bien Phu in northwest Tonkins . However, under pressure from the Japanese, he had to evacuate his troops 1,000 kilometers to China, which he successfully managed. He and his soldiers were interned by the Kuomintang for the remainder of the war .

During the Indochina War , Alessandri carried out a relatively successful pacification campaign in the Red River Delta . After the French defeat at RC 4 , Alessandri was recalled from Indochina in 1950. In 1952 he returned to the country as a military advisor to the Bao Dai administration . In 1955 Alessandri was retired.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la Guerre d'Indochine 1945 - 1954, Paris, 2006, p. 11f
    Frederick Logevall: Embers of War - The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam , New York 2013, p. 71
  2. ^ Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la Guerre d'Indochine 1945 - 1954, Paris, 2006, p. 11f
    Frederick Logevall: Embers of War - The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam , New York 2013, p. 245
personal data
SURNAME Alessandri, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alessandri, Marcel Jean Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-sur-Mer
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1968
Place of death Paris