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The French 9th Motorized Division originally known as the 9th Infantry Division, was a
French Army The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (, , ), is the principal Army, land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, Fren ...
division active during
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and the
Algerian War The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) ''; '' (and sometimes in Algeria as the ''War of 1 November'') was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (Algeri ...
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World War 2


Battle Of France

During the
Battle of France The Battle of France (; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (), the French Campaign (, ) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the Nazi Germany, German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembour ...
in May 1940, the division contained the following units: *13th Infantry Regiment *95th Infantry Regiment *131st Infantry Regiment *2nd Reconnaissance Battalion *30th Artillery Regiment *230th Artillery Regiment The division was an active division which had existed during peacetime. It was a fully motorized infantry division. The division was part of the Algiers Corps Area in 1960, during the Algerian War.


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