deaths
November 28, 1947
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (born 1902)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc.