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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 ...
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 ...
The origins of the Char 2C have always been shrouded in a certain mystery. [3] In the summer of 1916, likely in July, [3] General Léon Augustin Jean Marie Mourret, the Subsecretary of Artillery, verbally granted Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM), a shipyard in the south of France near Toulon, the contract for the development of a heavy tank, a char d'assaut de grand modèle.
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
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 ARL 44 was a French heavy tank and tank destroyer, [1] the development of which started just before the end of the Second World War.Only sixty of these tanks were ever completed, from 1949 onwards.