Birthday
1926/02/14
Day of death
2010/06/18 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Also know as
Bruno
Marcel Bigeard (February 14, 1916 – June 18, 2010), personal radio call-sign "Bruno", was a French military officer and politician who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French "unconventional" warfare thinking from that time onwards. He was one of the most decorated soldiers in France, and is particularly noteworthy because of his rise fro...Read more