The Generals of WWII
Generals from France
Salan
Raoul-Albert-Louis, General
(1899 – 1984)
1941
- 1943
Head of 2nd Bureau French West Africa
1943
- 1944
Head of 2nd Bureau North Africa
1944
Commanding Officer 6th Senegalese Regiment
1944
- 1945
Commanding Officer Infantry 9th Colonial Division
1945
General Officer Commanding 14th Division
1945
- 1946
General Officer Commanding French Forces in Tonkin & China
1947
- 1948
General Officer Commanding Northern Indochina
1948
Commander in Chief Far East Land Forces
1949
- 1950
Director of Colonial Forces, Ministry of National Defence
1950
Commander in Chief Far East Land Forces
1950
- 1951
General Officer Commanding Tonkin Operational Zone
1950
- 1951
Acting High Commissioner of North Vietnam
1951
Assistant High Commissioner of Indochina
1951
Commissioner of South Vietnam
1952
- 1953
Commander in Chief Indochina
1954
Inspector-General for the Defence
1954
Assistant Commander in Chief Indochina
1955
- 1956
Member of the Supreme War Council
1956
- 1958
General Officer Commander in Chief Algeria
1958
- 1959
Inspector-General for National Defence
1959
- 1960
Military Governor of Paris
1960
Retired
1961
Led a Mutiny in Algeria
1961
- 1962
Head of the OAS
1962
Condemned to death as traitor in absentia
1962
Arrested
1962
Sentenced changed life imprisonment
1968
Released
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