Pierre Goybet was born in 1887, the third son of General Mariano Goybet

Mariano Goybet

Mariano Francisco Julio Goybet was a French Army general that held several senior commands in World War I.-An old Savoy family:...

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He took part in the Battle of Verdun

Battle of Verdun

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He commanded the cruiser

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 Primauguet and landed at Aruba

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 in the Antilles

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 in April 1940 to protect Standard and Shell Petroleum installations against attacks by the Germans.

On June 25, 1940, he brought a part of the French Gold Reserve from the Banque de France

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 to Casablanca

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 to be protected from the Germans.

In November 1942, he was the commanding officer of the port of Casablanca when the Americans landed there during Operation Torch

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. He received Generals George S. Patton

George S. Patton

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, Kees, and Wilburg to discuss a ceasefire.

He died in 1963.