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Alphonse Pierre Juin (16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967) was a senior French Army general who became Marshal of France. A graduate of the École Spéciale Militaire class of 1912, he served in Morocco in 1914 in command of native troops.
Alphonse Juin (born Dec. 16, 1888, Bône, Algeria—died Jan. 27, 1967, Paris, France) was an officer of the French army who became a leading Free French commander in World War II.
Alphonse Juin, né le 16 décembre 1888 à Bône ( département de Constantine) 1 et mort le 27 janvier 1967 à Paris ( 5e arrondissement ), est un général d'armée élevé à la dignité de maréchal de France .
Alphonse Juin, son of a gendarme, was born in Bône, Algeria, on 16 December 1888. After his studies in Constantine and later in Algiers, he was admitted to Saint-Cyr in 1909. He graduated at the head of his class –the "de Fès" class, in 1912 – the same year as Charles de Gaulle.
A great French figure of the Second World War, in 1944 General Juin was Commander-in-Chief of the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War II, considered General Alfonse Juin to be the best French combat general of the conflict. Juin led the largest French command engaged against the Germans during the middle years of the war.
Alphonse Juin. French General. Born: December 16, 1888 at Bone, Algeria. Died: January 27, 1967. Juin graduated from St. Cyr in 1911 and was posted to Morocco, returned to France for service in World War I and then back to North Africa.
