Ils étaient là: l’armée de l’Air septembre 39 - juin 40. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. (2006) Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art. The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940.

Gunsburg, Jeffrey A., 'The Battle of the Belgian Plain, 12-: The First Great Tank Battle', The Journal of Military History, Vol.

Frieser, Karl-Heinz Blitzkrieg-Legende-Der Westfeldzug 1940.

Best available study of the French prisoners of war in German captivity. La Captivite, Histoire des prisonniers de guerre francais 1939 - 1945, Paris, 1981. Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, 1949 The Second World War: Their Finest Hour (Volume 2). The Low Countries were freed later in 1944 and in 1945.

Southern France was invaded by Germany on 10 November 1942.įrance began to be freed by the Allies at the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

France was split into a German-occupied part in the north and west, a small Italian-occupied part in the southeast, and a satellite state part in the south that was called Vichy France. The campaign was a major victory for the Axis Powers. After the French Second Army Group's surrender on 22 June, France signed an armistice on 25 June.

The French government left Paris for Bordeaux, and the Germans took Paris on 14 June. Italy got into the war and started its own invasion of France, in the southeast of the country, on 10 June. The second part of the battle, called Fall Rot in German ('Case Red' in English), started on 5 June, when German armed forces circled the Maginot Line to attack the rest of France. Most of the British Expeditionary Force and many French soldiers escaped to England from Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo. In the first part, called Fall Gelb in German ('Case Yellow' in English), German tank units pushed through the Ardennes to circle the Allied units that moved into Belgium. In World War II, the Battle of France, also called the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries from that ended the Phoney War. 28,225 dead (possibly as high as 49,000) ġ,290 aircraft lost (10 May to 24 June 1940) ġ,097 aircrew killed, 1395 injured, 1930 missing ġ029 RAF aircraft, 1274 french aircraft ġ Italian forces were involved in fighting in the French Alps, where severe sub-zero temperatures are common, even during the summer.

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