Yves Jean Antoine Noël Godard papers, 1929-1974

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Summary

Creators:
Godard, Yves Jean Antoine Noël, 1911-1975
Abstract:
Correspondence, messages, reports, dossiers, maps, photographs, clippings, and speeches and writings relating to military and resistance operations during World War II, military operations during the Indochinese War, and military, police, and terrorist activities during the Algerian independence struggle. Includes records of the Armée secrète de Haute-Savoie.
Extent:
13 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders, 1 envelope (7.1 Linear Feet)
Language:
French
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Yves Jean Antoine Noël Godard papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1911, December 21
Born, Saint Maixent, France
1929
Baccalauréat, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Strasbourg
1932
Graduated from the Ecole Spéciale 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 Maizières, France
1940-1944
Prisoner 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 Armée Secrète 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 général de la Sûreté Nationale en Algérie (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 Armée Secrète) in 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 Arthème Fayard)
1975, March 3
Died, Lessines, Belgium
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1976.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Yves Jean Antoine Noël Godard papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
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