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During the course of the war, French military losses totaled 212,000 dead, of whom 92,000 were killed through the end of the campaign of 1940, and 58,000 from 1940 to 1945 in other campaigns, 24,000 lost while serving in the French resistance, and a further 38,000 lost while serving with the German Army (including 32,000 "malgré-nous").
Organization of French Vichy forces in Metropolitan France in 1941 [136] [137] Also known as "the New Army;" or the Armistice Army. The terms of the Armistice of 22 June 1940 ensured the forces of Vichy France forces had only limited artillery and armored vehicles. Each division had three infantry regiments, a reconnaissance regiment of two ...
23 May 1939 - 10 June 1940: Country France: Branch: French Army: Type: Infantry: Size: Division of 3 Infantry, and 2 Artillery Regiments: Part of: First Army General Headquarters Reserve III Army Corps Group Moliné Regrouping Zone D: Garrison/HQ: Anzin: Engagements: World War I World War II: Commanders; Brigadier General: Paul-René Malivoire ...
Some 58,000 were killed in action from 1940 to 1945 fighting in the Free French forces. Some 40,000 malgré-nous ("against our will", citizens of the re-annexed Alsace-Lorraine province drafted into the Wehrmacht) became casualties. Civilian casualties amounted to around 150,000 (60,000 by aerial bombing, 60,000 in the resistance and 30,000 ...
French Liberation Army; Armée française de la Libération: Active: 8 January 1943 () –1945 () Country: France Second French Colonial Empire: Type: Army: Size: 550,000 (1944) 1,300,000 (1945) Engagements: Italian campaign Liberation of Corsica Battle of Marseille Operation Overlord Liberation of Paris Operation Dragoon Campaign of France ...
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (French: Armée de terre, lit. ' Army of Land ' ), is the principal land warfare force of France , and the largest component of the French Armed Forces ; it is responsible to the Government of France , alongside the French Navy , French Air and Space Force , and the National Gendarmerie . [ 3 ]
Operations by the First Army in April 1945 encircled and captured the German XVIII S.S. Armee Korps in the Black Forest and cleared southwestern Germany. At the end of the war, the motto of the French First Army was Rhin et Danube, referring to the two great German rivers that it had reached and crossed during its combat operations.
The 1st Army Corps (French: 1 er Corps d'Armée) was first formed before World War I.During World War II it fought in the Campaign for France in 1940, on the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Elba in 1943 - 1944 and in the campaigns to liberate France in 1944 and invade Germany in 1945.