Overview
Jacques Morin (1924-1995) was a French officer and company commander of the Parachute Company of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment.
Military career
In 1941, Jacques obtained the second part of his baccalaureate, at the Jesuits of Saint-Genevieve.
At his sortie, he subscribed for 8 years at the ESM of Saint-Cyr, which he joined at Aix-en-Provence where he was garrisoned in the Free Zone, on 15 October 1942.
On 27 November the Italians and Germans encircled the school and demanded access to the arms depot. They put the student candidates on leave. A ceremony of offering birds was put into effect and it was in front of the enemy that Jacques Morin revealed his officer capability with only 2 months of school. Saint-Cyr was closed on 6 December 1942.
The students were sent to the youth fields or had the option to enlist in a faculty in the capital. He was placed on armistice leave on 1 March 1943. After three attempts to join North Africa by Switzerland or Spain, he subscribed at the Oriental language school at Paris and conducted several visits to the Maquis where he became an instructor with the rank of a Caporal-chef (Senior Corporal) on 1 June 1943. In March 1944, he left this Maquis group to join a clandestine group of Saint-Cyr, at another Maquis group at the corps of the resistance army organization (ORA).
Denounced as a traitor, he was taken by the Germans on 7 June 1944. Interrogated at Fresnes, he was deported on August 15, to the Laura commando of the Buchenwald camp. With the Allies advancement, the commando was moved to Allach near Dachau. Liberated by the Americans (U.S.), on 30 April 1945, he remained in wait at the sanitary evaluation at the camp, where he escaped with the aid of a woman of the social services unit of the navy and a sailor, a former secretary of his uncle, a Submariner at Casablanca. He was brought back to France in an armored vehicle of Hitler, accompanied by and bringing back with him an Admiral, incoming for inspection.
He was placed on convalescence leave and assigned to CHR of the COI 113.
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