Marcel Carpentier

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Marcel Carpentier (1915)

Marcel Maurice Carpentier (born March 2, 1895 in Preuilly-sur-Claise , † September 14, 1977 in Mettray ) was a French army officer . He took part in both world wars and the Indochina War.

Life

First World War and the interwar period

Carpentier was when the war broke the 90 e d'régiment infantry allocated. On May 22, 1915, Carpentier was promoted to Capitaine at the age of twenty . On June 16, 1915, he was seriously wounded. After the war he continued to serve in the army and completed general staff training at the Saint-Cyr military school . In 1937 he was appointed chief of staff of the French troops in the Levant .

Second World War

In 1940 Carpentier served as a commandant in the French army. Carpentier served after the defeat of France in the western campaign in the army of the Vichy regime until 1942 as chief of staff of the troops in North Africa under Jean de Lattre de Tassigny . In the course of Operation Torch , these troops defected to the Western powers in 1942, almost in one piece. On the side of Free France , Carpentier served as chief of staff of the 1st Army and later as commander of the 2nd Moroccan infantry division.

Indochina War

In 1949 Carpentier was appointed commander in chief of the expeditionary force in Indochina. During the Indochina War, it vehemently spoke out against a Vietnamese national army built and armed by the United States . Carpentier pursued the strategy of isolating the Viet Minh in the Viet bac from the rice deliveries from the Red River Delta and thus weakening the guerrillas. To this end, he entrusted General Marcel Alessandri with a comprehensive operation. After the heavy defeat at the Battle of Route Coloniale 4 in 1950, Carpentier was replaced by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

After his replacement, Carpentier was assigned to NATO.

He left the army in 1956 with the rank of Général d'armée .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 237.
  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 , p. 230 f., P. 255.
  3. ^ Martin Windrow : The Last Valley. Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2004, ISBN 0-297-84671-X , pp. 108-109.
  4. ^ Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la Guerre d'Indochine 1945 - 1954 , Paris, 2006, p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Carpentier, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpentier, Marcel Maurice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French army officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Preuilly-sur-Claise
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1977
Place of death Mettray