French Army Infantry

The French army started World?War II as the most powerful army?in the world. Well-equipped, with?excellent tanks and artillery, the?infantry divisions were numerous?and confident of fighting off the?hated Boche as they had twenty-two years before. This was not the?same war though, and the French?infantrymen found themselves all?too often fighting off German?armoured units which had?outmanoeuvred?them as the?Blitzkrieg rolled across Europe. 

It was for the honour of France?and their regiments that so many?Frenchmen dug in and fought it?out against a more?tactically?advanced foe. Resolutely fighting against the sweeping offensives of the German invaders, the French gave?their all?at?battles such as Hannut, Arra, Boulogne and Saumur.