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The French Expeditionary Corps (FEC) (French: Corps Expéditionnaire Français, CEF), also known as the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy (FECI) (French: Corps Expéditionaire Français en Italie, CEFI), was an expeditionary force of the French Liberation Army formed in 1943. The corps participated in the Italian Campaign of World War II ...
Groupement Mobile No. 100 ("Group Mobile 100" or G.M. 100) was a regimental task force unit of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps which was assembled as a convoy. It included the elite veteran UN Bataillon de Corée who fought in the Korean War at Chipyong-ni, Wonju and Heartbreak Ridge.
French Expeditionary Corps in Italy [Corps expéditionnaire français en Italie, CEFI] (1943–44), during World War II; French Expeditionary Corps in the Far East [Corps expéditionnaire français en Extrême-Orient, CEFEO] (1945–1956), during the First Indochina War
Magrin-Vernerey met with Général Antoine Béthouart, chief 1st Chasseurs Division of the French Scandinavian Expeditionary Corps (French: Corps expéditionnaire français en Scandinavie), who allowed him to meet the men at the garrisoned camp on the night of 30 June.
These were committed mainly by the Moroccan Goumiers, colonial troops of the French Expeditionary Corps (FEC), [1] commanded by General Alphonse Juin, and mostly targeted civilian women and girls (as well as a few men and boys) in the rural areas of Southern Lazio, between Naples and Rome. Mass rapes continued across all the campaign including ...
French businessmen, planters, and officials in Saigon were "indignant at the prospect of losing their colonial privileges." [80] D'Argenlieu bluntly denounced Leclerc. "I am amazed – yes, that is the word, amazed", he said, "that France's fine expeditionary corps in Indochina is commanded by officers who would rather negotiate than fight". [79]
Recruitment in liberated France led to an expansion of the French armies. By the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, France had 1,250,000 troops, 10 divisions of which were fighting in Germany. An expeditionary corps was created to liberate French Indochina, then occupied by the Japanese.
The Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient (Oriental Expeditionary Force) (CEO) was a French expeditionary force raised for service during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. The corps initially consisted of a single infantry division, but later grew to two divisions.