Godard, Yves Jean Antoine Noël, 1911-1975.
Variant namesColonel, French army; director of police in Algeria, 1958-1960; organizer of the Organisation Armée secrète, 1961-1962.
From the description of Yves Jean-Antoine Noël Godard papers, 1929-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870753
Biographical Note
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1911, December 21:
Born, Saint Maixent, France -
1929:
Baccalaureat, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Strasbourg -
1932:
Graduated from the Ecola Speciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr (military academy); sous-lieutenant, 27th Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins (Alpine Infantry) -
1937:
Champion de France militaire de ski (military ski champion) -
1939:
Member, French military mission to Poland -
1940:
Captain; captured by German forces, June 16, at Maizieres, France -
1940 -1944 :Prisonner of war (Oflag 10, Montwy, Poland); escaped to France via Germany disguised as a Spanish laborer -
1944:
Battalion chief, 27th Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins; commander of the Armee Secrete de Haute-Savoie (Secret Army of Resistance Fighters of Haute-Savoie) -
1945 -1948 :Occupation duty in Austria -
1948 -1952 :Commander of the 11th Bataillon de Choc (Special Forces) -
1952 -1955 :Duty in Indochina; commander of the Groupement Mobile Nord of the Forces Terrestres du Laos (combined French and Laotian forces); attempted to relieve the siege of Dien Bien Phu; lieutenant colonel -
1955 -1957 :Adjutant to General Massu, commander of the 10th Division Parachutiste (Paratroop Division); commander of the Algiers-Sahel military sector; active role in the "Battle of Algiers"; colonel -
1958 -1960 :Directeur general de la Surete Nationale en Algerie (director of police) -
1960 -1961 :Adjutant in the subdivision of Nevers, France -
1961:
Participant in the April putsch in Algeria; condemned to death in absentia -
1961 -1962 :Organizer and chief of intelligence of the O.A.S. (Organisation Armee Secrete) on Algeria -
1965 -1975 :Manufacturer, Papignies, Belgium -
1972:
Author, Les Paras dans la ville (Paratroops in the City), vol. I of Les Trois Batailles d'Alger (The Three Battles of Algiers) (Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard) -
1975, March 3:
Died, Lessines, Belgium
From the guide to the Yves Jean Antoine Noel Godard Papers, 1929-1974, (Hoover Institution Archives)
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| creatorOf | Yves Jean Antoine Noel Godard Papers, 1929-1974 | Hoover Institution Archives | |
| creatorOf | Godard, Yves Jean Antoine Noël, 1911-1975. Yves Jean-Antoine Noël Godard papers, 1929-1974. | Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library |
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