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    1er Bataillon de Choc) (1er BC - dissolved). 2nd Shock Battalion/ Bataillon Janson-de-Sailly or Bataillon Gayardon 2e bataillon de choc [fr] (2e BC -...
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    the battalion commander (Chef de Bataillon). The 2nd Foreign Parachute Battalion (2e Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes, 2e B.E.P) was created on October...
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    analysis. In 1986 the previous 89e Bataillon de Services received this new designation. 11e Régiment Parachutiste de Choc (11e RPC), Cercottes - a covert...
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    A.S) (1st S.A.S Parachute Battalion). On March 1, 1946 the 2e Battaillon de Choc S.A.S, (2e B.C-S.A.S) (2nd S.A.S shock battalion) was created from elements...
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    Army of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny): they founded le 2ème Bataillon de Choc, also known as Bataillon Janson-de-Sailly and the bataillons des bacheliers...
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  • Régiment de Choc (CNEC) - National Commando Training Center / 1st Shock Regiment, in Mont-Louis Centre d'Entraînement au Combat / 1er Bataillon de Chasseurs...
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    Compagnie de combat – 1st Combat company 2e Compagnie de combat – 2nd Combat company 3e Compagnie de combat – 3rd Combat company 4e Compagnie de combat –...
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  • Expeditionary Corps. In 1953, Hélie then served in the 11e Régiment Parachutiste de Choc. By definition, there was no information on this passage, however it was...
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  • 1952-1954, Algérie 1955-1957, Presses de la cité, 1976 Les Cadets de la France Libre, Presses de la cité, 1978 Commandos de choc en Indochine, les héros oubliés...
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  • Jean Gilles (French Army officer) (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    coloniale (9th Colonial Infantry Division) and took command of 2e bataillon du 13e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais (2nd Battalion, 13th Regiment Senegalese...
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    previously been assigned to the 1st Parachute Choc Battalion (French: 1er Bataillon Parachutiste de Choc) of the 11th Choc Parachute Half-Brigade. He was promoted...
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    parachutiste de choc, 11e RPC (11th Shock Parachute Regiment), colloquially called "11e Choc," and in the 1er Bataillon Parachutiste de Choc, 1er BPC (1st...
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    the Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (BPC) based in Vannes-Meucon, the Metropolitan Paratroopers, and the Colonial Paratroopers and Bataillons Étrangers...
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    troops organized into five light infantry battalions (Bataillons de Chasseurs Laotiens) – the 1er, 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e, and 6e BCLs – led by a cadre of French...
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  • of the 1st platoon of unit of tradition of the 1st Choc Battalion (French: 1er Bataillon de Choc) at Staoueli, on October 30, 1943, then that of the...
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  • Pierre Jeanpierre (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Foreign Parachute Regiment, History of the 2e REP, the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion 1er Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes [2] Archived 1 July 2015 at...
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    with French forces against the Việt Minh. The Tai Battalion 2 (BT2, 2e Bataillon Thai) is infamous for its desertion during the siege of Dien Bien Phu...
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  • Regiment (1er RPIMa) and 2e régiment de chasseurs parachutistes (2e RCP) respectively. From 1940 to 1945, General Charles de Gaulle led the following...
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    Petain-regime". In 1943, he commit himself as voluntary-soldier in the "Bataillon de choc". He becomes "chasseur" in the fourth company. After the Toulon-loading...
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