The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of General Jean-Clement Blanc

Blanc, Jean-Clement

General

* 1st of October 1897

† 21st of December 1982

Promotions

1940-06-25 Lieutenant-Colonel
1942-06-25 Colonel
1944-03-25 Temporary Brigadier-General
1945-09-01 Brigadier-General (Dated back to 1944-03-25)
1946-05-20 Major-General
1949-12-07 Lieutenant-General
1953-09-01 General

Service

1940-06-27 1940-08-31 Attached to 4th Bureau, Army General Staff
1940-08-31 1941-09-20 Deputy Head of 4th Bureau, Army General Staff
1940-09-20 1942-07-01 Head of 4th Bureau, Army General Staff
1942-07-01 1943-02-19 Commanding Officer 63rd Artillery Regiment
1943-02-19 1943-07-02 Attached to the Army General Staff
1943-07-02 1943-07-06 Permanent Secretary of Provisional Cabinet of War
1943-07-06 1948-04-28 Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff
1948-06-25 1949-01-13 Assistant Inspector-General of the Army
1949-01-13 1949-12-10 Chief of Staff, Allied Land Forces Central Europe
1949-12-10 1955-06-16 Chief of the Army General Staff
1950-12-16 1958-10-01 Member of the Supreme War Council
1952-01-01 1955-06-16 Vice President of the Supreme War Council
1955-06-16 1958-10-01 Director of the Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale
1956-03-01 1958-10-01 Inspector-General of the Land Forces
1956-09-18 1957-01-15 Inspector-General of Artillery & Air Ground Forces
1957-02-01 1958-10-01 Member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
1958-01-08 1958-08-01 Inspector-General of Artillery & Air Ground Forces
1958-10-01 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Jeanne Lefevre, born Blanc