Roger Blaizot
1895 – 1981
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	French Army
Rank	Général de corps d'armée
Unit	French Liaison Officer to Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia[1]
Commands held	1st Motorized Colonial Division 9th Colonial Division Forces Francaises Extrême Orient[1]
Battles/wars	World War II First Indochina War

Roger Charles André Henri Blaizot (1895–1981) was a French military leader, who commanded French forces during the World War II and the First Indochina War.^[1] Blaizot served in Indochina through the last two years of the World War II,^[2] having been sent to command the Forces Francaises Extrême Orient by Charles de Gaulle.^[3] Following the war, Blaizot led a fifty-member staff group to Indochina as part of a cooperation between British Special Operations Executive agents of Force 136 and the French government to ensure French retention of South East Asia,^[4] this having been approved by Lord Philip Mountbatten in 1943.^[5] Blaizot then went on to command the French forces in Indochina from 1948 until 1949,^[6] succeeding Jean-Étienne Valluy and being succeeded himself by Marcel Carpentier.^[7]

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CEFEO shoulder patch insignia bearing the "Far East" mark.

Printed sources:

• Bodinier, Gilbert, La Guerre d'Indochine, 1945-1954: textes et documents, France Armée de terre, service historique, 1987.
• Chapuis, Oscar. The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN 0313311706
• Currey, Cecil B. Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap Potomac Books Inc. 2005. ISBN 1574887424
• Duiker, William J. U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina, Stanford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0804722838
• Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Fredrik Logevall, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 0674023714
• Thomas, Martin, Silent Partners: SOE's French Indo-China Section, 1943-1945, Modern Asian Studies, p. 943–976, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Tucker, Spencer C. Vietnam, Routledge, 1999. ISBN 1857289226

Websites:

• Biography of: Blaizot, Roger-Charles-André-Henri, Lieutenant-General. (1895 – 1981)