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Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism personnel killed in action (5 P) Pages in category "French military personnel killed in World War II" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
Pages in category "French Army personnel killed in World War II" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It had killed 13,000 Axis soldiers, captured 50,000 and destroyed 332 heavy and medium tanks, 2,200 other vehicles, and 426 cannons of various types. [10] According to another source, the unit counted 1,687 dead, including 108 officers, and 3,300 wounded .
French Waffen-SS personnel (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "French military personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 322 total.
By the end of World War II, the Free French unit counted 273 certified victories, 37 non-certified victories, and 45 damaged aircraft with 869 fights and 42 dead. [39] On 31 May 1945, Normandie-Niemen squadrons were directed to Moscow by the Soviet authorities, who decided to allow them to return to France with their aircraft as a reward. [40]
French development into tanks began during World War I as an effort to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare, and largely at the initiative of the manufacturers.The Schneider CA1 was the first tank produced by France, and 400 units were built.
The Wehrmacht took the farm in the late afternoon. The Germans and their French prisoners then tended to the wounded and collected the dead of both sides that were in the fields around the farm. [1]: 135–41 Among the French soldiers killed was the organist and composer Jehan Alain. He was assigned to reconnoitre the German advance on the ...
The Chasselay massacre was the mass killing of French prisoners of war by German Army and Waffen-SS soldiers during the Battle of France in World War II.After capturing non-white French POWs during the capture of Lyon on 19 June 1940, German troops took approximately 50 black soldiers to a field near Chasselay, and used two tanks to murder them.