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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.
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.
Free French military personnel of World War II (2 C, 111 P) French military personnel killed in World War II (3 C, 70 P) French Special Operations Executive personnel (46 P)
Brilliant French commander during World War II. As part of Operation Dragoon in 1944, his French Army B captured over 28,000 Germans and liberated Marseilles and Toulon. He also conducted several brilliant campaigns in the First Indochina War, winning impressively at the Battle of Vĩnh Yên in 1951. Charles de Gaulle: 1890–1970 French
Name Date Location Deaths Perpetrators Notes Abbeville massacre: 20 May 1940: Abbeville: 22 French Army French soldiers shot a number of Flemish nationalists and members of the Belgian Communist Party as the German army cut off the area during the Battle of France: Le Paradis massacre: 27 May 1940: Le Paradis village, commune of Lestrem ...
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]
Axis occupation of France: German occupation of France during World War II - 1940–1944 in the northern zones, and 1942–1944 in the southern zone. The Holocaust in France. Italian occupation of France during World War II - limited to border areas 1940–1942, almost all Rhône left-bank territory 1942-1943.