Daimler Ferret armored cars of the French 12th Dragoon Regiment in Palat (modern-day Mellakou), Algeria, July 1957.
u/Pvt_Larry — 20 days ago
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Corsica, September 1943: An Italian artillery observer attached to a group of Moroccan goumiers radios for fire support. A large portion of the Italian "Friuli" and "Cremona" divisions supported the allies during the fighting on Corsica.
u/Pvt_Larry — 1 month ago
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Corsican Maquis during the liberation of Corsica. On 9 September 1943, resistance groups staged an uprising using weapons smuggled in by submarine. They were joined by 10,000 Moroccan troops, and part of the Italian garrison which chose to fight the Germans.
u/Pvt_Larry — 1 month ago
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Renault FT tanks in Odessa, Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. Odessa was occupied by French and Greek troops from December 1918 until April 1919. [1280x951]
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3 September 1944: Lyon is liberated by the 1st Free French Division (1re DFL) and US 36th Infantry Division
u/Pvt_Larry — 1 month ago
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1950: A Chinese policeman and three Vietnamese women of the Thổ ethnic group, photographed on the bridge linking China and French Indochina in Cao Bằng, Vietnam [897x912]
u/Pvt_Larry — 1 month ago
September 1944: An Sd.Kfz. 250 halftrack captured by French partisans and hastily repainted with allied markings. Photographed during the French 1st Army's advance north from Provence following Operation Dragoon.
u/Pvt_Larry — 1 month ago
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French soldiers from the 12e Régiment de Dragons check identity documents in Algeria, 1955-1957 [864x1280]
u/Pvt_Larry — 2 months ago
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August 1944: Free French troops of the 22e Bataillon de Marche Nord-Africain remove a street sign bearing the name of Marshal Pétain in Sainte-Maxime, France, during Operation Dragoon, the Franco-American landings in southern France [1229x810]
u/Pvt_Larry — 2 months ago
16 August 1944: D-Day +1 for Operation Dragoon, the allied invasion of Southern France. M3A3 Stuarts of 1st Squadron, 5e Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique, advancing towards Toulon after landing at Sainte-Maxime.
u/Pvt_Larry — 2 months ago
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15 August 1944: Combat Command 1 of the French 1st Armored Division (1re DB) comes ashore at Sainte-Maxime (Var Department) during Operation Dragoon, the allied landings in Southern France.
u/Pvt_Larry — 2 months ago
21 June 1940: French Cavalrymen of the 20e GRCA pose in front of a SdKfz 263, knocked out that morning by a 25mm SA 34 anti-tank gun in Saint-Chamond (Loire Department). The officer on the right is armed with the rather rare PM MAS 38 submachine gun.
u/Pvt_Larry — 6 days ago
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Vehicles of the 121e Escadron du Train of the French army at Lasalle Barracks in Lure, Haute-Saône department, 1934 [1024x774]
u/Pvt_Larry — 2 months ago
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French gendarmes with their SOMUA S 35s, Tunisia, 1948. Note the commander's cupola, which was a wartime modification added by the Germans.
u/Pvt_Larry — 3 months ago
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French Air Force Curtiss H-75s of GC I/4 in 1940. The fighter closest to camera, No. 99, was shot down near Antwerp, Belgium on 11 May 1940. The pilot, Sgt. Charles-Fernand Lacroix, was credited with shooting down a Dornier Do 17 in the action and received a posthumous Croix de Guerre with Palm.
u/Pvt_Larry — 3 months ago
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A motorcycle messenger from the US 1st Infantry Division converses with a French officer in Gondrecourt-le-Château, 25 July 1917. The US troops were being trained behind the lines by French Chasseurs Alpins.
u/Pvt_Larry — 3 months ago
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Renault Vivaquatre BDH3 van requisitioned by the French army in 1939
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June 1945: A German civilian in Stuttgart barters for cigarettes with Moroccan goumiers
u/Pvt_Larry — 3 months ago
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Ambulance drivers of the French army conduct a familiarization course with the Laffly S 15 R all-terrain liaison vehicle (VLTT) in the spring of 1940
u/Pvt_Larry — 3 months ago
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An armored recovery vehicle built on a Schneider CA tank chassis is used to extricate a Renault FT, during exercises of the French 506th Tank Regiment at Camp de Valdahon in 1934
u/Pvt_Larry — 3 months ago