Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. ' the militia ' ; French pronunciation: [milis] ), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II .
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
The Maquis (French pronunciation: ⓘ) were rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during World War II. Initially, they were composed of young, mostly working-class, men who had escaped into the mountains and woods to avoid conscription into Vichy France 's Service du travail obligatoire (STO ...
At the end of 1943, the French Resistance in the French Alps of Haute-Savoie needed arms. To find good drop zones to supply the Maquis with arms and sabotage equipment, a mission composed of Richard Henry Heslop from the Special Operations Executive and Captain Rosenthal from the Free French Forces was sent from London.
French declaration of war on Germany—17:00 on 3 September 1939. Phoney War , or drôle de guerre ("strange war"), the name given to the period of time in Western Europe from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, there was almost no fighting, and no bombs were dropped.
Army of Africa French Forces leader General Henri Giraud shakes hands with Free French Forces leader General Charles de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference in French Morocco on 14 January 1943. Created in 1830, the Army of Africa was a colonial expeditionary force that conquered the Regency of Algiers in 1847.
Berthier Mle 1907/15 M16 rifle. Many late world war I era French rifles such as this Berthier rifle and other late World War I variant of Berthier and Lebel rifles were still in heavy use by French forces in World War II due to newer French rifles the MAS-36 and MAS-40(not in production) not being available in sufficient quantities for the French military.
murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) Graignes massacre: 11 June 1944: Graignes, Manche: 61 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division: 17 American POWs were bayonetted and shot to death and 44 French civilians accused of assisting the Americans were shot by German troops. Dun-les-Places massacre: 28 June 1944: Dun-les-Places: 27