| Roger Blaizot | |
| Birth Date: | 17 May 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France |
| Death Place: | Lyon, France |
| Allegiance: |  France |
| Branch: | French Army |
| Rank: | Général de corps d'armée |
| Unit: | French Liaison Officer to Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia |
| Commands: | 1st Motorized Colonial Division 9th Colonial Division Forces Francaises Extrême Orient |
| Battles: | World War II First Indochina War |
Roger Charles André Henri Blaizot (17 May 1891 - 21 March 1981)[1] was a French military leader, who commanded French forces during World War II and the First Indochina War.[2] Blaizot served in Indochina through the last two years of the World War II,[3] having been sent to command the Far East French Expeditionary Forces (Forces Francaises Extrême Orient) by Charles de Gaulle.[4] 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,[5] this having been approved by Lord Philip Mountbatten in 1943.[6] Blaizot then went on to command the French forces in Indochina from 1948 until 1949,[7] succeeding Jean-Étienne Valluy and being succeeded himself by Marcel Carpentier.[8]
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