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    d’hélicoptères légère de la 1re Armée, Baden-Baden I French Corps, 1er Corps d'armée (1er CA), Metz, France 8e Régiment de Hussards (8e RH), Altkirch (36x AMX-10RC...
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  • The 1st Army Corps (French: 1er Corps d'Armée) was first formed before World War I. During World War II it fought in the Campaign for France in 1940, on...
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    classe ("Engineer-General Beyond Class", equivalent to a Général de corps d'armée). There are at least three (one for each service branch) but usually...
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    Siege of Lille (1940) (category Battle of France)
    French Commander: Général de corps d'armée Jean-Baptiste Molinié Data from Lloyd Clark (2016) unless specified. III Corps (général de corps d'armée de...
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    responsible for the defence of France from the Channel coast south to the Maginot Line. The Seventh Army (Général d'armée Henri Giraud), BEF (General Lord...
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    Général de corps d'armée. (*****) Officers subsequently promoted to Général d'armée. Officers nominated to Marshals of France () Marshal of France, President...
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  • (French: Armée) and Army Corps (French: Corps d'Armée)): August 1914: isolated September 1914: combined corps Humbert, then 32nd Army Corps (France) (French:...
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    of the Army of Vichy France, this division, except for the Garde, was demobilized on 27 November 1942. General de corps d'armée (equivalent to Lieutenant-General)...
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    Bruno Dary (category Articles containing French-language text)
    is a Général d'armée of the French Army and commandant of the Foreign Legion. Général Dary is the 136th Military governor of Paris (French: Gouverneur...
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    Army of the Rhine (1870) (category Field armies of France)
    Ladmirault. The 5th Army Corps (French: 5e Corps d'Armée), formed with the Army of Lyon, commanded by general de Failly. This Army Corps assembled in the regions...
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    Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (category Marshals of France)
    XV Corps was transferred to the Seventh United States Army on 29 September, and Leclerc feared that 2e DB would be transferred to Général d'armée Jean...
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    Henri Navarre (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    général de corps d'armée, equivalent of lieutenant general, in 1952. On 27 May 1953, Navarre replaced Raoul Salan as commander of French forces in Indochina...
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    Army of Châlons (category Field armies of France)
    Intendant général : intendant général Vigo-Roussillon The 1st Army Corps (French: 1er Corps d'Armée) was commanded by général Ducrot, with headquarter staff, colonel...
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  • Division Daguet (category Wars involving France)
    March respectively April near Kuwait City. "Interview du général de corps d'armée Michel Roquejeoffre par le journaliste Pierre Bayle". Archived from...
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    Raoul Magrin-Vernerey (category Hungarian emigrants to France)
    in course of formation and was voluntarily demoted from général de corps d'armée to lieutenant-colonel in order to command the battalion. The battalion...
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  • Jean Brette (category Articles containing French-language text)
    June 1929 - 20 November 2018) was a Général de corps d'armée of the French Army, who served in the French Foreign Legion and was the regimental commander...
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    Raoul Salan (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    assigned to the 5th Colonial Infantry Regiment (5e RIC) in Lyon on 14 August 1918. As a platoon leader in the 5e RIC's 11e Compagnie, he took part in the fighting...
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  • Colonel Monoyer 1st Army Corps (Ier corps d'armée) Commanded by Lieutenant-General Sapin 2nd Army Corps (IIe corps d'armée) Commanded by Prince Philippe...
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    Battle of Abbeville (category 1940 in France)
    Valery-sur-Somme, also with French artillery and infantry in support. British tank commanders stressed to Général d'armée Besson, the commander of Groupe...
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    13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion (category Infantry regiments of France)
    denounce the practice of torture during the Algerian War. Général de corps d'armée Bernard Saint-Hillier, Captain 13e DBLE (1940), regimental commander...
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    Operation Cycle (category 1940 in France)
    units, despite a lack of training and weapons. French troops were sent into the area, as Général d'armée Maxime Weygand attempted to build up a defence...
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  • Royal Moroccan Air Force (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    July 1982. Together with the F-5E/Fs, the FRA decided to buy a total of 24 OV-10As from the United States Marine Corps. However, only the first six aircraft...
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  • Jean Louis Roué (category Articles containing French-language text)
    Jean Louis Roué was a Général de corps d’armée of the French Army and Commandant of the Foreign Legion. Called up to serve his military obligations, he...
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  • Swiss Armed Forces (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Straus & Giroux), 1984. Field Army Corps 1, Sécurité au seuil du XXIe siècle: Histoire et vie du Corps d'Armee de Campagne 1, c.2000. ISBN 2-9700264-0-6...
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  • Jean-Claude Coullon (category Articles containing French-language text)
    December 1929) was a Général d'armée of the French Army and Commandant of the French Foreign Legion. As a trooper enfant (French: Enfant de troupe) in 1942...
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    Paul Arnaud de Foïard (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Regiment 4e REI at Fes in Morocco. The 5e du 2/4e REI became the 6e CP du 4e REI, on 16 November 1956. At the corps of this unit, he partook to operations...
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    Fortified Sector of the Vosges (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    SF Vosges was reorganized and designated the 43rd Army Fortress Corps (43e Corps d'Armée de Forteresse), inheriting some elements from the RF Lauter and...
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  • Marching regiment (category 20th-century regiments of France)
    (French: 13e Corps d'Armée) (général Vinoy (French: général Vinoy) was formed in August 1870 at Paris. The Marching Regiments of this corps were constituted...
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    Jacques Servranckx (category Belgian emigrants to France)
    he was repatriated to France. He went back to Indochina in September 1951, was assigned to the 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment 5e REI and participated to...
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