View Full Version : Général Bigeard passed away.
skylinedrive
06-18-2010, 05:01
Général Marcel Bigeard has passed away on the 18th of june 2010. He died in his home in Toul aged 94.
RIP Chef!
Poignant timing, as today is also the 70th anniversary of General de Gaulle's famous broadcast on BBC airwaves to occupied France on 18 June 1940 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2010/06/president-sarkozy-marks-annive.shtml).
For this broadcast did in some way create the public personality of General de Gaulle, create the Resistance movement, and in turn create (in modern memory) the idea of unified and free France. President Sarkozy has himself said - 'We are all the children of the 18 June'.
The Reaper
06-18-2010, 09:02
Served well at Dien Bien Phu as well.
Captured and released.
Blue Skies, mon General.
TR
greenberetTFS
06-18-2010, 09:26
God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior.................. :(
Big Teddy
Red Flag 1
06-18-2010, 11:26
Rest In Peace General.