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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
Various tank designs were built by France after World War II. Tank models such as the AMX-13 and AMX-30 were also exported to various other nations. Newer French tank designs sacrificed armour protection for increased mobility, due to the idea that the large amount of armour required to protect against modern anti-tank threats would ...
262 tanks & assault guns: Casualties and losses; 41 medium tanks 7 light tanks 7 tank destroyers [1] 200 tanks & assault guns lost [2] 86 destroyed; 114 damaged; During the battle, 73 tanks were destroyed / damaged by P-47s. [3] 5th Panzer Army losses in September of 1944 in Arracourt region: 118 Panther; 101 Panzer IV; 122 Jagdpanzer and Stug [3
French 6,126 tanks and self-propelled guns (~2,000 destroyed, ~4,000 captured by Germans in 1939-1940). 946 armoured cars and half-track destroyed or captured by Germans in 1939-1940. At least 1,741 tanks destroyed in 1939-1940, 549 light and medium tanks destroyed in 1944-1945 and 134 combat cars. [6] UK 15,844 tanks and 1,957 armoured cars ...
In less than 15 minutes, 13 to 14 tanks, two anti-tank guns and 13 to 15 transport vehicles had been destroyed by the 2nd Company, 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion, many by Wittmann. [ 82 ] [ 102 ] Wittmann and his crew made their way to the Panzer-Lehr Division headquarters at Cháteau d'Orbois, 3.7 mi (6.0 km) north of Villers-Bocage.
It took place between 12 and 14 September 1944 during the Lorraine campaign on the Western Front of World War II. [4] The battle saw a new German Panzer brigade hastily set up by the Wehrmacht to stop the Allied advance after the collapse of the Normandy front , and a unit of the French 2nd Armoured Division under General Philippe Leclerc .
Pages in category "World War II tanks of France" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. AMC 34;
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.