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    unrelated to the Freikorps) were the "Corps Franc". Starting in October 1939, the French Army raised a number of Corps Franc units with the mission of carrying...
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    The Corps Franc de la Montagne Noire (Free Corps of the Black Mountain) or C.F.M.N, was a fighting unit of the French resistance, during World War II....
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    The Swiss franc , or simply the franc (Swiss German: franken; French: franc; Italian: franco; Romansh: franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland...
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    laws of war. During the wars of the French Revolution, a franc-tireur was a member of a corps of light infantry organised separately from the regular army...
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    Maquis de Saffré in Loire Atlantique Maquis de Saint-Marcel in Brittany Corps Franc du Sidobre (Tarn) Maquis La Tourette in the Hérault created by Jean Bène...
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  • during the Nazi Invasion. Taking inspiration for their name from the Corps Francs which had played an important role in the Phoney War, they were a very...
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    the units. Units such as the 49th Infantry Regiment (formerly the FFI Corps Franc Pommiés) and the 3rd Demi-Brigade of Chasseurs (formerly the FFI Alsace-Lorraine...
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    Following the landing, Bonnier was one of the first to commit to the Corps Francs d'Afrique training under the initial direction of Henri d'Astier de la...
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    brigade was among several units formed from FFI personnel, such as the Corps Franc Pommiès, that made up what up General Lattre used as a reserve. AP (11...
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    French units. In September 1938, the French Army also introduced the corps franc, special formations of infiltration and deep reconnaissance soldiers...
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    would raise a unit of volunteers of its own, dubbed the Wallonia Free Corps (Corps Franc Wallonie) or Walloon Legion (Légion Wallonie). Unlike comparable Flemish...
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  • U.S. II Corps (co-ordinated by First Army but under direct control of 18th Army Group) Commanded by: Major General Omar Bradley Corps Francs d'Afrique...
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  • 310 p. [pas d'ISBN] Baltikum: dans le Reich de la défaite, le combat des corps-francs, 1918-1923, Robert Laffont, coll. " L'Histoire que nous vivons ", Paris...
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  • control of 18th Army Group) Commanded by: Major General Omar Bradley Corps Francs d'Afrique (three battalions) One Tabor Moroccan Goumiers U.S. 13th Field...
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    September 1946. Monsabert commanded first the Corps Francs d'Afrique and then the reserve elements of the XIX Corps (France) during the campaign for Tunisia...
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  • 2023-05-16. Bellec, Olivier (June 2000). "L'équipement et l'armement des corps francs". Militaria Magazine (in French). No. 179. Histoire & Collections. pp...
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  • Lautignac-Savères. Towards the end of June, the fuse was lit as Reboul joined the corps franc Pommiès with 200 men. 7 June 1944 : Sabotage of the railway at Capens...
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  • the Mouvements unis de la Résistance, the Maquis de Vabre became the Corps franc de la libération no. 10, before joining the French forces of the interior...
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  • (2003). "Un nouveau Drang nach Osten ? La France face à la menace des corps francs allemands dans les pays baltes, 1919". Revue internationale d'histoire...
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    Puy-de-Dôme. In April 1943, he went into hiding and created the Auvergne 1st Corps Franc, whose command post was situated in the hamlet of Lespinasse, in the...
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  • March 2024. Bellec, Olivier (June 2000). "L'équipement et l'armement des corps francs". Militaria Magazine (in French). No. 179. Histoire & Collections. pp...
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  • born 24.01.1921". National Archives (UK). Retrieved 11 November 2020. Corps Franc, Pommiès. "Musée de la résistance en ligne". museedelaresistanceenligne...
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    equip the 11e Groupement de Cavalerie; then five even more informal Corps-francs Motorisés were formed, each to be equipped with seven tanks, but only...
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  • Romain (1999). De Giraud à de Gaulle: Les corps Francs d'Afrique [Giraud to de Gaulle: the French Corps of Africa] (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan....
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  • later become Captain Hoche in command of the 4th company F.F.I. (4th corps franc of Auvergne region) of the region Maquis du Mont Mouchet headed by Colonel...
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    which received 39, part of 3e Cuirassiers, the 4th DLM (10), and some Corps-francs Motorisés (about 25). Also the destroyed 1st, 2nd and 3rd DLM were reconstituted...
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    which received 39, part of 3e Cuirassiers, the 4th DLM (10), and some Corps-francs Motorisés (about 25). Also the destroyed 1st, 2nd and 3rd DLM were reconstituted...
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  • mention of La Rochefoucauld. However, an entry on page 75 refers to: "Corps Franc Georges – Attack on St. Medard powder works (out of action 15 days)"...
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    the areas and their experience in human tracking, they were part of Corps Francs (small units which were tasked to operate behind German lines to collect...
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  • ISBN 2-20722717-0. Retrieved 13 February 2017. 1985: La Vérité sur mon Corps franc d'Afrique, 1942-1943. Le Pavé dans la mare (in French). Éditions du Rocher...
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