*** Welcome to piglix ***

1st Foreign Parachute Regiment

1st Foreign Parachute Regiment
1er Régiment étranger de parachutistes
Insigne du 1° REP.jpg
Regimental insigne
Active April 1, 1948 – May 31, 1949
July 1, 1948 – September 1, 1955
February 25, 1955 - April 30, 1961
Country France
Branch Flag of legion.svgFrench Foreign Legion
Type Foreign Airborne
Part of

Co. Para du 3ème REI attached to III/1er RCP (1948-1949)
previously, the 1er BEP in:

Garrison/HQ

Camp de Jeanpierre (1959)

Zéralda, Algeria
Nickname(s)

Jeanpierre's Regiment

Jeanpierre's Legionnaires
Motto(s) Marche ou crève
Colors Green and Red
March Contre les Viets
Anniversaries Camerone Day
Engagements

First Indochina War
*Battle of Route Coloniale 4
*Battle of Hoa Binh
*Operation Lorraine
*Battle of Na San
*Operation Castor
*Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Algerian War

  • Battle of Algiers
  • Bataille des Frontières
Suez Crisis
Algiers putsch of 1961
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Pierre Paul Jeanpierre
Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc
Abbreviation 1er REP

Co. Para du 3ème REI attached to III/1er RCP (1948-1949)
previously, the 1er BEP in:

Camp de Jeanpierre (1959)

Jeanpierre's Regiment

First Indochina War
*Battle of Route Coloniale 4
*Battle of Hoa Binh
*Operation Lorraine
*Battle of Na San
*Operation Castor
*Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Algerian War

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 1er Régiment Etranger de Parachutistes, 1er REP) was part of the Foreign French Airborne. The regiment fought in the First Indochina War as the 3 time reconstituted 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, the Suez Crisis and Algerian War, but was dissolved along with the 10th Parachute Division and 25th Parachute Division following the general's putsch against part of the French government in 1961.


...
Wikipedia

...