Roger Charles André Henri Blaizot (17 May 1891 – 21 March 1981) was a French military leader, who commanded French forces during

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and the

First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between French Fourth Republic, France and Việ ...

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retrieved June 26, 2008 Blaizot served in

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through the last two years of the World War II, having been sent to command the Far East French Expeditionary Forces (Forces Francaises Extrême Orient) by

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. Following the war, Blaizot led a fifty-member staff group to Indochina as part of a cooperation between

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agents of Force 136 and the French government to ensure French retention of

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, this having been approved by Lord Philip Mountbatten in 1943. Blaizot then went on to command the French forces in Indochina from 1948 until 1949, succeeding Jean-Étienne Valluy and being succeeded himself by Marcel Carpentier.Tucker, p. 52.

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Printed sources: * Bodinier, Gilbert, ''La Guerre d'Indochine, 1945-1954: textes et documents'', France Armée de terre, service historique, 1987. * Chapuis, Oscar. ''The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. * Currey, Cecil B. ''Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap'' Potomac Books Inc. 2005. * Duiker, William J. ''U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina'', Stanford University Press, 1994. * Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Fredrik Logevall, ''The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis'', Harvard University Press, 2007. * Thomas, Martin, ''Silent Partners: SOE's French Indo-China Section, 1943-1945'', ''Modern Asian Studies'', p. 943–976, Cambridge University Press, 2000. * Tucker, Spencer C. ''Vietnam'',

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