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Yves Gras is an officer of the French Army .

Officer resulting from Saint-Cyr military school, at the time of the Second world war it escapes from France by Spain. Without being for as much French Free, it belonged to the 1 {{free Re}} French division with which it made the campaigns of Italy and France and from which it wrote the history in: the 1st D.F.L. - Free French with the combat .

Former chief of police of the 2 {{E}} RPIMa, it is based with Kinshasa, the Zaire, when the situation degrades in the katangaise city Kolwezi in May 1978. He puts all then works about it in order to obtain the authorization to make jump of the French soldiers on the city. This one having been invaded a few days earlier by rebels, the life of thousands of Europeans, Belgians, French and Italians working on the spot was threatened. It will be the Sauvetage of Kolwezi.

Colonel Gras successful then to persuade the Parisian Staffs and the president of the Republic of the need for an airborne operation of scale. The 2 {{E}} REFERENCE MARK, ordered by the colonel Erulin is indicated to carry out the operation.

Colonel Gras, at the time of the operation adds up thirty seven years of service in the colonial troops. He was used for Madagascar, in Indo-China, Algérie, but also with the Senegal, the Southern Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, with Djibouti and the Morocco. This assignment with the mission of military aid of Zaire must be the completion of its career, it was crowning.

The general Yves Gras was professor at the School of War.

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