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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.
French border defenses before World War II (24 P) M. Maginot Line (30 C, 140 P) N. Nazi concentration camps in France (3 C, 11 P) P. World War II prisoner-of-war ...
Naval battles of World War II involving France (19 P) B. Battle of Belgium (1 C, 31 P) Battle of Britain (4 C, 78 P) F. Battle of France (4 C, 53 P) H. Battle of Hong ...
In memory of this battle, the United States Navy escort carrier Midway (CVE-63) was renamed USS St. Lo on October 10, 1944. The ship was sunk on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, by a kamikaze attack.
14 June: German troops entered the French capital of Paris. 16 June: French Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of France, replacing Paul Reynaud. Operation Aerial and Operation Cycle took place by evacuating around 150,000 Allied soldiers from French ports of Cherbourg, St. Malo, Brest, St. Nazaire, La Pallice, Nantes, and ...
The Battle of Saint-Malo was fought between Allied and German forces for control of the French coastal town of Saint-Malo in Brittany during World War II.The battle was part of the Allied breakout across France and took place between 4 August and 2 September 1944.
Before World War II, this site was home to French army barracks. Previously, the site housed the signing of an armistice that displayed the victory of French forces in World War I on November 11, 1918.
The Battle of Marseille was an urban battle of World War II that took place August 21–28, 1944, and led to the liberation of Marseille by Free French forces under the command of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.