1st regiment parachutist of marines

The 1st regiment parachutist of marines , regiment of the French Army , is classified in regiment of Special forces. It is integrated into the Brigade of the special forces ground (BFST), itself under command of the Commandement of special operations (COS) and the État-major of the Army (EMAT).

Maintaining the Tradition units of parachutists SAS (Special Air Service) (free France and Indo-China), this regiment is the only French-speaking unit with being able to prevail itself of the currency: " Who Dares Gagne" who is that of SAS British " Who Dares Wins". The flag of French SAS was the allied emblem more decorated during the Second world war.

The basic training is the formation " RAPAS" (airborne research and specialized action). Come then from the specialities: " CT" (against terrorism), " TE/TELD" (marksmen), " GDC" (bodyguards), " STALEMATE SAS" (patrols SAS specialized in the desert), chuteurs " OPS" and " SOTGH" (operational jump with very great height), " RPO" (GRATED plunger offensive), jungle, mountain etc.

The citadel General Bank of Bayonne, of the name of the creative Officer of the parachutists of Free France and French SAS, also regularly accommodates foreign units of the special forces within the framework of exchanges of competences.

Creation and various denominations

  • September 29th, 1940: creation of the 1st company of the air (the 1st CIA) in England, by Georges Bank
  • April 10th, 1941: attached to the Army and re-elected 1st company parachutist
  • September 1941: becomes the group parachutist of Raising
  • January 1942 - January 1943: the group parachutist of Raising is integrated under the name of French squadron into the Special Air Service Brigade of the major Stirling
  • rehabilitation of the free French Air forces, under the name of 1st Company of hunters parachutists
  • July 1943: 1st battalion of infantry of the air (1st BIA) becomes the
  • November 1943: famous 4th battalion of infantry of the air (4th BIA)
  • July 1st, 1944: famous 2nd regiment of hunters parachutists (2nd CCP)
  • August 1st, 1945: passage in the Army, and fusion with the 3 {{E}} CCP
  • November 1st, 1960: famous 1st regiment parachutist of marines (1st RPIMa)

Chiefs of police

  • September 1940: captain Georges Bank
  • July 1942: captain Augustin Jordan (##)
  • July 1943: commander Pierre Fourcaud
  • November 1943: commander then lieutenant-colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin (#)
  • November 1944: commander Pierre Puech-Samson (#)
  • August 1945: lieutenant-colonel Jacques Pâris de Bollardière (*)

(*) Officer who became thereafter Brigadier general. (**) Officer who became thereafter Major general.
(#) Officer who became appointed thereafter. {##} Officier which became Ambassadeur thereafter (with Warsaw)

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of 1st RPIMa

Second world war

  • September 1940: creation and drive with Ringway (England)

  • 15 mar 1941: operation Savannah , first operation of the FFL in France (sabotage in Brittany)
  • May 1941: operation Joséphine B (sabotage of the powerplant of Pessac)
  • division in a section assigned to the BCRA, and two sections sent to the Middle East
  • July 21st, 1941: loading for the the Middle East, then garrison with Beirut, then with Damas
  • January 2nd, 1942: garrison with Kabret on the Suez Canal
  • June 1942: French SAS destroy 20 German planes in Crete, and attack the Aérodrome S of Matouba-Derna, Benina, Barce and Benghazi
  • July 1942: operations in Cyrénaïque
  • January 1943: harassing of the German backs in Tunisia
  • spring 1943: rest and drive with Camberley (England)
  • night of the 5 at June 6th, 1944: parachuting in Brittany
  • June 1944: combat of the Maquis of Saint-Marcel; the battalion, with the FFI (three thousand men on the whole), retains 85  000 Germans in Brittany, who cannot join Normandy, and operates his junction with Patton in July
  • August 1944: raids to Bordeaux, Périgueux (equipped with jeeps with Vickers machine-guns assembled on mounting-foot), on Right Bank of the Loire
  • September 11th, 1944: a company makes 3000 captive Germans
  • autumn: rest in Paris region:
  • December 30th, 1944: reinforcement at the time of the Battle of the Ardennes
  • February 1945: regrouping in England
  • night of the 7 to the April 8th 1945: parachuting in Holland. Engagements until the 18

From 1945 to our days

Feat of arms making particularly honor with the regiment

(*) Battle carried to the flag of the régiment.

Inscriptions on its flag

  • Peak 1942
  • Libya 1942
  • South-Tunisian 1943
  • France 1944
  • the Belgian Ardennes 1945
  • Holland 1945
  • Indo-China 1946/1954

The flag is decorated

The personnel of the regiment is authorized to carry

  • Fodder with the colors of the Fodder legion of honor
  • to the colors of the Cross of the Fodder TOE
  • to the colors of the Cross of the release (since June 18th, 1996)

Traditions

; The festival of the troops of navy
  • It is celebrated at the time of the birthday of the combat of BAZEILLES. This village which was 4 times taken again and gave up on orders, the August 31st and on September 1st, 1870.
; And in the name of God, colonial the
  • lives the Porpoises and Bigors has as patron saint God himself. This war cry finishes the intimate ceremonies which belong to the life of the regiments.

Organization

In 2005, we know that the 1st regiment parachutist of marines is organized around the following units: a company of command and logistics (CCL), one of transmission-grated, three companies of combat GRATED and one of operational preparation and instruction. Each company has its speciality. Thus the 1st company specialized in the combat in urban environments or watery and includes/understands in its center of the teams of operational chuteurs. As for the 2nd company, its pole of excellence is located in the combat in extreme mediums like the Equatorial forest or the zones of high mountains. Lastly, the 3rd company of combat as for it specialized in patrols SAS on armed light vehicles (tradition of the Jeep S armed SAS 1942-1945) and the support.

From its volume and its specificity GRATED, 1st RPIMa is a regiment Special forces without equivalent within and the Command Army of Special operations. It is also an extremely general-purpose regiment and can intervene in any type of medium. Quickly projectable, very professional and very effective, 1st RPIMa is of all the detachments and external operations of the French Army, but always committed very discreetly.

Famous characters having been used for 1st RPIMa

See too

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Site of the troops of navy
  • 1 {{er}} RPIMA on Parasympathetic
  • To remember S.A.S
  • Site on Louis HENRI (1935-1983)
  • Museum the troops navy Frejus
  • on Wikipédia in English language

Related articles

  • List of the French regiments
  • Troops of navy
  • List of the ranks in the French Army
  • List of the units of the troops of navy

sources

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