René Cogny
Military Commander
1904 – 1968
Who was René Cogny?
René Cogny was a French Général de division, World War II and French Resistance veteran and survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was a commander of the French forces in Tonkin during the First Indochina War, and notably during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. His post-war private and legal conflict with superior General Henri Navarre became a public controversy. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse, and reputable for his military pomp, physical presence and skill with the press, Cogny was killed when Air France Flight 1611 crashed in the Mediterranean near Nice.
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- Born
- Apr 25, 1904
Saint-Valery-en-Caux - Nationality
- France
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Lived in
- Normandy
- Died
- Sep 11, 1968
Mediterranean Sea
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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