Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The order of battle for the Battle of France details the hierarchy of the major combatant forces in the Battle of France in May 1940. Comparative ranks
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.
A 2-pdr anti-tank gun of 44 Battery, 13th Anti-Tank Regiment, 2nd Division in the snow near Beuvry, 15 February 1940. The crew wear snow suits and the gun is camouflaged with white sheets. This is the British Expeditionary Force order of battle on 9 May 1940, the day before the German forces initiated the Battle of France.
When the Battle of France began on 10 May 1940, the BEF constituted 10 per cent of the Allied forces on the Western Front. The BEF participated in the Dyle Plan , a rapid advance into Belgium to the line of the Dyle River , but the 1st Army Group had to retreat rapidly through Belgium and north-western France, after the German breakthrough ...
April 1940 Battle of Belgium: French First Army Group, Belgian Army, and German Army Group B: May 10 – 28, 1940 Battle of France: Allies and Axis: May 10, 1940 Operation Sea Lion: German: September 1940 (planned) Balkans campaign: German forces Axis order of battle for the invasion of Yugoslavia Yugoslav order of battle prior to the invasion ...
The Timeline of the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, covers the period during World War II from the first military actions between Germany and France and to the armistice signed by France. Over the period of six weeks, from May 10 to June 25, 1940, Nazi Germany had also
In May 1940, the 1st Army Group was responsible for the defence of France from the Channel coast to the west end of the Maginot Line. The Seventh Army ( Général d'armée Henri Giraud ), BEF, First Army ( Général d'armée Georges Blanchard ) and Ninth Army ( Général d'armée André Corap ) were ready to advance to the Dyle Line by pivoting ...
The Groupes Francs Motorisés de Cavalerie were formed in the chaos of late May 1940 during the Battle of France.They were composed of two squadrons each, principally by regrouping the remnants of the Groupes de Reconnaissance de Division d'Infanterie (GRDI) from the shattered French Infantry Divisions returning from The Invasion of the Low Countries, especially from the 1st GRDI.