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Bootie
11-06-2009, 04:09
Char B1 http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4696/b1tankpg2.jpg
PoorOldSpike
11-06-2009, 04:09
French Shermans
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/frenchshers.jpg
PoorOldSpike
11-06-2009, 04:09
Hotchkiss's
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6408/h39sf9.jpg
PoorOldSpike
11-06-2009, 04:10
Char B1bis
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5171/bibisbe0.jpg
PoorOldSpike
11-06-2009, 04:10
French tanks
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/593/frenchqu5.jpg
PoorOldSpike
11-06-2009, 04:10
B1bis
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/6609/b1bfo8.jpg
Bootie
11-07-2009, 11:54
Dutch?

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/a6572259.jpg
Bootie
11-07-2009, 11:57
Italy 1944

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/FrenchItal44.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:34
French troops setting barricades in Paris in case of an upcoming Nazi German invasion (May 1940). Screenhot taken from the 1943 United States Army propaganda film Divide and Conquer (Why We Fight #3) directed by Frank Capra and partially based on, news archives, animations, restaged scenes and captured propaganda material from both sides.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/French_troops_barricades2_paris_1940.png
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:34
An 18-pdr gun being inspected by General Georges and senior officers of the French and British armies at Orchies, 23 April 1940.

This is a Mk II gun on Mk I* or II carriage of World War I vintage. Its has the bronze reservoir fitted to the end of the recuperator (above the barrel) as part of the upgrade to hydro-pneumatic recuperator.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2208/fra18p.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:37
French Shermans
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1506/frenchbzf4.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:37
Renault R-35's in France 1938

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9999/french1938.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:37
French unit in Italy 1944
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/326/frenchinital44.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:37
French Resistance, Paris Aug 44

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6008/parisaug44.png



French Char B
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub3/art-CharB.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:37
Liberation of Paris
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5249/liberatofparis.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:38
Hotchkiss in France
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2403/hotch.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:38
Incidentally, the easiest way to tell the Hotchkiss series and the Renault R-35 apart is that the Hotchkiss has 3 pairs of bogeys each side, but the Renault only has 2 and a half (compare pics below)
Both tanks had the same 37mm gun and about the same armour, but later the Hotchkiss began to be fitted with a more powerful 37.
(In CM both tanks use the same Renault tank graphics)
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7013/frantks.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:38
Captured Hotchkiss, location unknown
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/hotchk.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:38
Dutch troops 1939

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/dutch-1939.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:39
French Renault R-35
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/ren-r35.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:40
Dutch, 1939
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/Dutch-39.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:40
Series of colour photos taken of Free French units in Italy -- no detailed captioned came with it, but looks like one of the French Mechanised Groups taking part in the Operation Diadem offensive in 1944 that broke through the German lines in the Arunci mountains... but just an educated guess.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/french-tank-it.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:40
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-tank-crew-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:40
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-stuart-italy-col.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-wounded-medics-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-shermanX-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-sherman-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-off-italy3.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-off-italy2.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-nurses-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:41
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-nurse-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:42
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-stretcher-italy-col.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:42
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-chaplain-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:42
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-medic-column-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:42
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-inf-trucks-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:42
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/Rico-FGM/french-column-italy.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:43
French AT-gun

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/FrenchATG.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:43
No caption except 'WW2'. Could be a member of the Resistance..

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/radioman.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:43
Hotchkiss 1940

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/Hotchkiss1940.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:43
Captured Somuas lead this parade in Paris
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/Paris-somuas.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:44
French Resistance fighter pictured 1947

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/Fr-Resist-1947.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:44
Fra 40
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/vehWreckFra40.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:44
Nth Fra harbour 1940
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/NthFraHarb40.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:44
French P-40's at Casablanca, 1943
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/FrenchP-40sCasablanca43.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:44
"French airmen hit a pinpoint target. Flying with the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces under the tri-color of France, the French split a vital rail bridge, 600 feet long and 15 feet wide, at the Piteccio viaduct in central Italy"

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/frenchB-26.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:45
French members of the "Bagadou Stourm" pro-nazi group

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/BagadouStourm.jpg



French Hotchkiss H-39
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub3/art-H-39.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:45
A french "Char B1" tank of the 37th battalion, after it has been destroyed by its own crew in Beaumont, Belgium,16 May 40
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/CharBinBelg40.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:45
Char B1, France

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/CharBFra.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:45
French unit
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3812/frenchaoy0.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:46
Char B, May 40
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/CharB-May40.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:46
French in Italy 1944

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/FrenchTroopsEatingItal44.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:46
French, Italy 1944 with captured Semovente

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/FrenchItalySemov44.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:47
French maquisard 1944

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/Maquisard44.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:47
Hotchkiss H39

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/H39-slope.jpg
Bootie
11-10-2009, 12:47
Hotchkiss H39

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/Hotch39.jpg
PoorOldSpike
06-29-2010, 05:28
French Somua S-35 (foreground) and Hotchkiss
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/french-tks.jpg






Dutch troops 1940
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Competitons/dutc40.jpg
PoorOldSpike
08-08-2010, 23:29
French Somua S-35
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/SomS35-wrk.jpg




French Char2
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Char2c.jpg




French AMR-35
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/AMR-35.jpg
PoorOldSpike
08-28-2010, 19:26
French light cruiser Gloire served with Allies in WW2
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/FrenchCruisGloire.jpg





How her 'dazzle' night camouflage would have looked through a U-boat periscope-
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Gloire-night.jpg
PoorOldSpike
09-09-2010, 14:40
Char 2C

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Char2C-1.jpg
PoorOldSpike
09-10-2010, 11:41
French Panhard,1940

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/FrenchPanhard.jpg
PoorOldSpike
09-13-2010, 11:59
Panhard wreck, France
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Panhd-bridg-Fra.jpg
Bootie
11-19-2010, 08:54
http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/AndrC3A9_Pierre_PAYAN_012.jpg
PoorOldSpike
01-08-2011, 15:58
Dutch nazis, collaborators and fraternisers rounded up, April 45

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Dutch-nazis-Ap45.jpg
PoorOldSpike
01-09-2011, 04:45
Char2 bis, Fra 40
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/CharB1bis-ple.jpg
PoorOldSpike
02-07-2011, 21:42
P-40, Free French AF, Algiers
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Algiers-FreeFAFP-40.jpg
PoorOldSpike
02-08-2011, 08:57
MAGINOT LINE
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/maginot_line.jpg
Corsaire31
02-08-2011, 10:30
That was a good joke... Haha !!! Thks for reminding !!
Bootie
02-08-2011, 10:41
Looked good though. :)
PoorOldSpike
02-08-2011, 11:08
The Maginot Line was criticised for not continuing all the way to the Channel coast, but that's a harsh judgement.
Military thinking at the time was "if the Germans try to outflank the Line by going through Holland and Belgium, they'll never do it because most of the French Army (millions of men) will be densely concentrated along the short length of frontage between the Line and the coast, and the Germans will never get through".
That would have been true except for one thing- the new Blitzkrieg concept whereby the main spearhead was directed at a very narrow sector in overwhelming strength, guaranteed to pierce any 1940 defence.
Later of course, the Russians showed how to stop the Blitzkrieg by placing masses of tanks and AT-guns in the path of the spearpoint.
PoorOldSpike
02-16-2011, 02:22
Dunkirk June 1940 after the Brit evacuation
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Dunkirk1940-aft-Evac.jpg
PoorOldSpike
02-25-2011, 16:27
French Somua S-35
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub3/art-S-35.jpg
Bootie
03-01-2011, 01:32
French infantry on the march 1939

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/frenchinf39.jpg
Bootie
07-13-2011, 11:26
While German forces were concentrated on Poland, anxiety was rising on the Western Front, with French troops welcoming British soldiers as they deployed along the border with Germany. Here, French troops pose in a cantonment in France on December 18, 1939.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w37_91218092.jpg
Bootie
07-13-2011, 11:27
Members of the French Army man an acoustic locator device on January 4, 1940. The device was one of many experimental designs, built to pick up the sound of distant aircraft engines and give their distance and location. The introduction and adoption of radar technology rendered these devices obsolete very quickly.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w39_01041120.jpg
Bootie
07-13-2011, 11:27
A party of newspaper men on the Western Front are shown atop one of the big forts somewhere in the Maginot Line, France, on October 19, 1939, with a French army guide pointing out to them the "no man's land" that separates the French and German troops.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w40_91019057.jpg
Bootie
07-27-2011, 08:38
French soldiers load a piece of artillery in a wood somewhere in the Western Front on May 29, 1940. The shell will be fired into the Nazi-occupied sector of the soldiers' homeland.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w16_05291200.jpg
Bootie
07-27-2011, 08:45
English and French prisoners of war sit near railroad tracks somewhere in Belgium in 1940.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w26_01210483.jpg
Bootie
07-27-2011, 08:47
French tanks pass through a bombarded French town on their way to the front line in France, on May 25, 1940.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w30_00525151.jpg
Bootie
11-01-2011, 08:56
French troops on their way to the fighting lines in Tunisia shake hands with American soldiers at the rail station in Oran, Algeria, North Africa, on December 2, 1942.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w30_21202013.jpg
Bootie
11-29-2011, 10:51
A French man and woman fight with captured German weapons as both civilians and members of the French Forces of the Interior took the fight to the Germans, in Paris in August of 1944, prior to the surrender of German forces and the Liberation of Paris on August 25.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w34_09081421-1.jpg
Bootie
11-29-2011, 10:53
A German soldier, wounded by a French bullet, is disarmed by two members of the French Forces of the interior, one a woman, during street fighting that preceded the entry of allied troops into Paris in 1944.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/s_w35_09060227.jpg
Bootie
12-02-2011, 19:02
A girl of the resistance movement is a member of a patrol to rout out the Germans snipers still left in areas in Paris, France, on August 29, 1944. The girl had killed two Germans in the Paris Fighting two days previously

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/ShanePics/s_w40_08290486.jpg
Bootie
12-02-2011, 19:02
Grande Guillotte of Normandy, France, pays the price for being a collaborationist by having her hair sheared by avenging French patriots on July 10, 1944. Man at right looks on with grim satisfaction at the unhappy girl.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/ShanePics/s_w41_07101262.jpg