List of Famous people with last name Cogny

René Cogny

First Name René
Last Name Cogny
Born on April 25, 1904
Died on September 11, 1968 (aged 64)
Born in France, Normandy

René Cogny was a French Général de corps d'armée, World War II and French Resistance veteran and survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was a commander of the French forces in Tonkin during the First Indochina War, and notably during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. His post-war private and legal conflict with superior General Henri Navarre became a public controversy. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse, and reputable for his military pomp, physical presence and skill with the press, Cogny was killed in 1968 Ajaccio-Nice Caravelle crash in the Mediterranean near Nice.

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