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3rd Army Group (France)
Army Group 3 ( 3 A 3 was a French Army formation during the Second World War, stationed along the river Rhine manning the Maginot line. It was responsible for manning the southern end of the Maginot Line, along the River Rhine and controlled one army. The army group's Commander-in-Chief was Antoine-Marie-Benoit Besson. Fortified sectors Until 16 March 1940, the Altkirch sector was part of the Fortified Region of Belfort. Afterwards, the Altkirch sector was under the command of the 44th Army Fortress Corps under General Tence, which was in turn under the command of the French 8th Army, General Garchery at the Fort de Giromagny, part of Army Group 3.Mary, Tome 3, p. 146 The 44th Corps' headquarters was at Dannemarie. The 67th Infantry Division, commanded by General Boutignon, provided infantry support. The 67th DI was a series B reserve division, not suitable for heavy or sustained combat Following to its reorganization, the sector was called the Defensive Sector of Altkirch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Army
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (french: Armée de Terre, ), is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces. It is responsible to the Government of France, along with the other components of the Armed Forces. The current Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT) is General , a direct subordinate of the Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA). General Schill is also responsible to the Ministry of the Armed Forces for organization, preparation, use of forces, as well as planning and programming, equipment and Army future acquisitions. For active service, Army units are placed under the authority of the Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA), who is responsible to the President of France for planning for, and use of forces. All French soldiers are considered professionals, following the suspension of French military conscription, voted in parliament in 1997 and made effective in 2001. , the French Army employed 118,600 personnel (including the Fore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th Infantry Division (France)
In military terms, 13th Division or 13th Infantry Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 13th Division (People's Republic of China) * 13th Division (German Empire) * 13th Reserve Division (German Empire) * 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian), a German unit in WWII * 13th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr), Germany * 13th Infantry Division (Greece) * 13th Infantry Division "Re", a unit of the Royal Italian Army * 13th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) * 13th Division (North Korea) * 13th Infantry Division (Poland) * 13th Guards Rifle Division, Soviet Union * 13th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), Soviet Union * 13th Division (Syrian rebel group) * 13th (Western) Division, United Kingdom * 13th Division (United States) * 13th Division (Syrian rebel group) Airborne divisions * 13th Guards Airborne Division, Soviet Union * 13th Airborne Division (United States) Armoured divisions *13th Armored Division (United States) *13th Tank Division (People's Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortified Sector Of The Jura
The Fortified Sector of the Jura (''Secteur Fortifiée du Jura'') was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the French frontier with Switzerland in the general area of Besançon. The area was lightly fortified, since the Swiss border was regarded as a low-risk frontier, save for the possibility of an advance from Germany through Switzerland into France. The Jura Mountains and the Doubs River presented natural barriers to invasion, allowing defenses to concentrate on a few points of potential access. The SF Jura was bordered on the east by the Fortified Sector of Montbéliard.Mary, Tome 1, p. 15 Concept and organization The sector's chief fortifications were old Séré de Rivières positions like the Fort de Joux, Fort de Larmont and the Fort Saint-Antione. A late effort in 1939-1940 constructed the CEZF Line, consisting of two sections of casemates. The northern section around Morteau consisted of four casemates, of fourteen proposed. The southern section ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
57th Infantry Division (France)
57th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the French Army during the First World War. It was deployed overseas, seeing action on the Salonika front, fighting alongside British troops. It was sent to the Crimea in December 1918 as part of the Army of the Danube. Commanders * August 1914 - 2 February 1915 : General Bernard * 3 February - 7 May 1915 : General Victor Cordonnier * 8 May - 17 June 1915 : General Marie Eugène Debeney * 18 June - 11 August 1915 : General Demange * 12 August - 22 October 1915 : General de Cadoudal * 23 October 1915 – 15 January 1917 : General Paul Leblois * 16 January - 13 December 1917 : General Jacquemot * 14 December 1917 – 4 March 1918 : General Siben * 5 March 1918 - end of the conflict : General Génin * 1939 : General Barbeyrac de Saint-Maurice * 1940 : General Texier First World War 1914 * 6–9 August : Elements detached to the 7th Army Corps during the offensive in Mulhouse. :: 9–10 August : fighting in Mulhouse then wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornans
Ornans () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. On January 1, 2016, the former commune Bonnevaux-le-Prieuré was merged into Ornans.Arrêté préfectoral 6 November 2015 Personalities Ornans is the birthplace of the French realist painter, (1819 - 1877). One of Courbet's most famous paintings is '' Burial at Ornans'', which records the burial of his great uncle in September 1848. Courbet's painting depicted actual people who had attended the funeral and were used as models for the painti ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortified Sector Of Montbéliard
The Fortified Sector of Montbéliard (''Secteur Fortifié de Montbéliard'') was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the French border with Switzerland in the vicinity of Montbéliard. The Montbéliard sector stands in the vicinity of the Belfort Gap, a traditional invasion route into eastern France. However, the area was lightly defended, as the Swiss border was not regarded as an area with a high risk of invasion, and because the left bank of the Rhine was firmly in French hands. Concept and organization The Montbéliard sector was chiefly composed of old Séré de Rivières system fortifications constructed to defend the Belfort Gap. The main positions were the Fort du Mont Bart Fort du Mont Bart is located to the south of Montbéliard, France. It was built between November 1874 and July 1877 as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications. The fort overlooks the valleys of the Doubs and the Allan at an elevat ... and the For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortified Sector Of Altkirch
The Fortified Sector of Altkirch (''Secteur Fortifiée d'Altkirch'') was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the French frontier with Germany and Switzerland in the vicinity of Basel. The sector's principal defense against an advance from Germany was the Rhine itself, which could be crossed only by boat or by seizing a bridge crossing. The frontier with Switzerland was not regarded as a high-risk location, save for a possible advance by German forces through Switzerland. Originally planned as a full extension of the Maginot Line with artillery ''ouvrages'', the sector's fortifications were scaled back and chiefly took the form of casemates and blockhouses. The SF Altkirch adjoined the Fortified Sector of Mulhouse to the north and the Fortified Sector of Montbéliard to the west. Concept and organization The region bordering Switzerland was treated as a low-priority area, but received a substantial number of casemates and blockhouses nonethele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th Army Corps (France)
In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the Musical note, note thirteen scale degrees from the root (chord), root of a chord (music), chord and also the interval (music), interval between the root and the thirteenth. The interval can be also described as a Interval (music)#Simple and compound, compound major sixth, sixth, spanning an octave plus a sixth. The thirteenth is most commonly major or minor . A thirteenth chord is the stacking of six (major third, major or minor third, minor) thirds, the last being above the 11th of an eleventh chord. Thus a thirteenth chord is a tertian (built from thirds) chord containing the interval of a thirteenth, and is an extended chord if it includes the ninth and/or the eleventh. "The jazzy thirteenth is a very versatile chord and is used in many genres." Since 13th chords tend to become unclear or confused with other chords when Inverted chord, inverted, they are generally found in root position.Benward & Saker (2009). ''Music in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Army Corps (France)
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
