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French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.
The Army of the Republic. The Place of the Military in the Political Evolution of France 1871–1914 (1967). Rich, Norman. Great Power Diplomacy: 1814–1914 (1991), comprehensive survey; Schmitt, Bernadotte E. The coming of the war, 1914 (2 vol 1930) comprehensive history online vol 1; online vol 2, esp vol 2 ch 20 pp 334–382; Scott ...
Les Armées françaises dans la Grande guerre [French Armies in the Great War] (in French). Vol. X-2 : Ordres de bataille des grandes unités : divisions d'infanterie, divisions de cavalerie. Paris: Impr. nationale. 1924.
Armed forces during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 D-Day Overlord; Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1. "The Assault Landings in Normandy : Order of Battle British Second Army" (PDF). Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
French military personnel of World War I (4 C, 590 P) ... French Army order of battle (1914) French Military Mission to Romania (1916–1918) G.
Members of the French Resistance and the US 82nd Airborne division during the Battle of Normandy in 1944. Through the London-based État-major des Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur ( French Forces of the Interior ), the British Special Operations Executive orchestrated a campaign of sabotage to be implemented by the French Resistance .
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune).
Charles de Gaulle exhorted the French people to join the allied armies, while the French Vichy forces participated in direct action against Allied forces, inflicting casualties in some cases. The Normandy landings in that year were the first step towards the eventual liberation of France .