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Title: Yves Jean Antoine Noël Godard Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1929-1974
Collection number: 76073
Creator:
Godard, Yves Jean Antoine Noël, 1911-1975
Collection Size: 13 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 envelope (6.9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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 Armee
secr`ete de Haute-Savoie.
Language:
French.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], Yves Jean Antoine Noël Godard Papers, [Box no.], Hoover
Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1976.
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Armee secr`ete de Haute-Savoie.
France. Armee--Officers.
Organisation Armee secr`ete.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
Africa.
Algeria.
Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962.
France.
Haute-Savoie (France)
| 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 |