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During the course of its operations in France and Germany in 1944 - 1945, the 1st Army Corps lost 3,518 men killed, 13,339 wounded, and 1,449 missing, for a total of 18,306 casualties. Although not all casualties inflicted on the Germans by 1st Army Corps are known, the corps is credited with taking
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units to cover positions on the river that the slower-moving infantry divisions (4th Colonial Infantry Division - 4 DIC, 7th North African Infantry Division - 7 DINA, and the 19 DI) could then occupy. This required combat with the Germans, but the corps reached positions near Le Hamel, Aubigny, and
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reinforcements. By the end of the month, however, other attacks by U.S. and French forces against the Colmar Pocket had forced the Germans to redistribute their troops, and an early February attack by the 1st Army Corps moved north through weak German resistance, reaching the bridge over the Rhine
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Compounding the distance that supplies had to travel from the ports in southern France were the north–south railway lines with destroyed bridges and sections of track. Early October 1944 also saw the unseasonably early arrival of cold and wet weather more characteristic of November. All of these
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hoped to obtain reinforcements with which to hold the island. After the Germans began disarming Italian soldiers, General Magli of the Italian Army ordered Italian forces to consider the Germans as an enemy rather than as allies. Thereafter, Italian units on the island cooperated with the French
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to a single, not-at-full strength infantry division. The 1st Army Corps launched their attack to force the Belfort Gap on November 13, 1944. By a stroke of fate, the French attack caught the German division commander near the front lines, who perished under a hail of Moroccan gunfire. The same
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The Germans defended Elba with two infantry battalions, fortified coastal areas, and several coastal artillery batteries totaling some 60 guns of medium and heavy caliber. In the fighting, the French seized the island, killing 500 German and Italian defenders, and taking 1,995 of them prisoner.
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Henry Maitland Wilson, Baron Wilson of Libya & of Stowlangtoft, 1881-1964, commander of 2nd Division, British forces in Egypt, W Force, GOC Palestine and Transjordan, commander of 9th Army, and CinC of Persia and Iraq and then Middle East Command prior to becoming Supreme Allied Commander
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Théodore Marcel Sciard, 1881-1967, commander of the Bas-Rhin Fortified Region, 43 DI, 3 DINA, and 1st Military Region prior to commanding the 1st Army Corps. After the 1940 campaign, commanded the 17th Military Region in 1940-1941 and then retired. Recalled in 1944 and retired again in
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Division troops), and the French had 75 killed, 12 missing, and 239 wounded. From October 1943 until May 1944, the 1st Army Corps defended Corsica, conducted training, and moved units between Corsica and North Africa. On April 18, 1944, the 1st Army Corps was subordinated to General
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took over the Mediterranean Theater, however, attitudes at Allied headquarters changed and the operation was approved. By this time, though, the Germans had strongly fortified Elba, an island dominated by rugged terrain in any case, making the assault considerably more difficult.
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Marie Émile Antoine Béthouart, 1890-1982, commander of the 1 DLC, French forces in Norway, sub-Division Rabat, and Division Casablanca, as well as head of the French military mission to Washington prior to assuming command of 1st Army Corps. French high commissioner to Austria,
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factors served to force a halt to the 1st Army Corps' advance in October while the corps improved its supply situations and resolved manpower issues caused by the French high command's decision to rotate the Senegalese troops to the south and replace them with
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Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, 1891-1963, commander of 17. Panzer-Division and military commander of Sicily prior to becoming military commander for Sardinia and Corsica in 1943. Went on to command XIV. Panzerkorps in Italy 1943-1945, prisoner of war
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Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890-1969, Commander in Chief Allied Expeditionary Force Mediterranean, then Commander in Chief Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in 1944-1945, postwar U.S. Army Chief of Staff and President of the United
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on the south coast, the French initially ran into difficulties because of the German fortifications and extremely rugged terrain that ringed the landing area. Falling back on an alternate plan, the landing beach was shifted to the east, near
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The 1st Army Corps led the attack against the Colmar Pocket on January 20, 1945. Fighting in woodlands and dense urban areas, the 1st Army Corps' attack stalled after the first day, meeting a German defense in depth and attracting German
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Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, 1889-1952, commander of the 14 DI, 13th Military Division, 14th Military Division, and CinC Tunisia prior to commanding Armée B. Postwar, became high commissioner then CinC for French
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From circa 1965 to 1978 the corps included the 8th Division (with 4th and 14th Brigades) until the 8th Division, later the 8th Armoured Division, was disestablished in the small divisions reorganisation of the late 1970s.
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was taken by the 9th Division on June 18 and the island was largely secured by the following day. Fighting in the hills between the Germans and the Senegalese colonial infantry was vicious, with the Senegalese employing
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in the Black Forest. Frantic attempts at escape by the encircled German troops came to naught among French roadblocks and the formidable terrain of the forest, and they were left no options save death or surrender.
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manpower. The supply situation had improved by early November, coinciding with orders from General Eisenhower, now in charge of all Allied forces in northwestern Europe, directing a general offensive all along the
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in November 1942. For the remainder of the war in Europe, many French divisions would be subordinated to 1st Army Corps, but the divisions that spent the most time with the corps were the
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French losses were 252 killed and missing, and 635 men wounded in action, while the British lost 38 of their 48 commandos, with nine others wounded by the blast of the demolition charge.
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Henry Jules Jean Martin, 1888-1984, commander of 87 DIA, Division Marrakech, and 1 DMM before commanding 1st Army Corps. Commander of XIX Corps in Algeria from 1944-1946, retired 1946.
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on the night of September 13, 1943, the SS troops took 2,000 Italian prisoners and secured the port from which the Germans could evacuate their forces. Although supported by the
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on February 9, 1945. Thereafter, the thrust of the Allied offensive moved to the north, and the 1st Army Corps was assigned the defense of the Rhine from the area south of
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on November 24, forcing the German troops to either surrender or intern themselves in Switzerland. On November 25, 1st Army Corps units liberated both
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Giovanni Magli, 1884-1969, commander of the Centauro Armored Division prior to commanding VII Army Corps on Corsica, then GOC of Sardinia 1943-1944.
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Believing that the relative inactivity of 1st Army Corps meant the corps was digging in for the winter, the Germans reduced their forces in the
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and also landed to guide in other troops headed for the beaches, but a massive blast from a German demolition charge killed 38 of their men.
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by mid-November 1939. On May 10, 1940, the Corps commanded the 25th Motorised Infantry Division (25 DIM) in addition to its organic units.
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and landing on the southern coast of Corsica. Wishing to cut off the German troops, and informed on September 10, 1943, that the
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Jacques Marie Joseph Edmond Ignace Trancart, 1881-1952, commander of 1st Army Corps Artillery prior to assuming corps command.
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From June 9, the corps was involved in a succession of withdrawals that were meant to form lines of defense along the rivers
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into retreat in what historian Stuart Robson called "the last old-style Napoleonic infantry charge in history." This forced
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on April 24, and then pushed south again with elements of the 2 DIM into the Alps, crossing into Austria and marching into
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on June 24, 1940. The following day, an armistice was declared and the corps assembled in the region of Miallet and
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with the 60th and 21st Infantry Divisions (60 DI and 21 DI), but was ordered to retreat back into France on May 18.
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Infantry Divisions. Its troops came from the 1st military region of the Metropolitan Army, which covered the
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1st Army Corps (part of Seventh Army) retreated to the Somme to avoid being cut off by the German advance.
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After the Germans crossed the Loire on June 18, the 19 DI of the corps was largely destroyed near
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troops on Corsica were willing to fight on the side of the Allies, the French launched Operation
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on May 10, 1940, the 1st Army Corps moved into Belgium with the goal of gaining contact with the
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Mediterranean in 1944. Postwar was the Head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington.
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on May 7, 1945. Elements of the 5 DB and the 4 DMM drove southeast along the north shore of
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Advance of U.S. and French forces after landing in southern France, August - September, 1944.
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Trancart assumed command of the corps. The 1st Army Corps was demobilized on July 10, 1940.
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had collapsed the German presence in Alsace to a roughly circular pocket around the town of
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border. German resistance was spotty in September, but rapidly coalesced in front of the
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The Belfort Gap forced and the formation of the Colmar Pocket, November - December, 1944.
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On April 15, 1st Army Corps was given the mission of crossing the Rhine, traversing the
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road junction, capturing it on April 17, 1945. The 9 DIC, crossing the Rhine north of
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101,556 Germans prisoner during the campaigns to liberate France and invade Germany.
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landings in southern France, the headquarters of the 1st Army Corps was assembled at
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Following the liberation of Corsica, the French proposed to invade the island of
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At 0400 hours on June 17, 1944, the 1st Army Corps assaulted Elba in Operation
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The period from May 19–26 saw the corps falling back to the line of the river
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From Freudenstadt, elements of the 1 DB pushed east and south, capturing
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The Corps saw service throughout the entirety of World War I. During the
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forces in western Italy. Initially, the proposal was denied by General
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The 1st Army Corps was reconstituted on August 16, 1943, in Ain-Taya,
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After VE Day, the 1st Army Corps occupied Baden along with parts of
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The corps was again disbanded in 1990, seemingly on 1 July 1990.
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and then turning east toward Sankt-Anton. The following day was
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Grande Guerre : territoriaux bretons et normands du 87 DIT
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The Battle of the Colmar Pocket, January 20 - February 9, 1945.
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attack narrowly missed capturing the commander of the German
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1st Army Corps drove north along the east bank of the river
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The November offensives of the French First Army and the
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Satellite view of Elba (bottom) showing rugged terrain.
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1st Army Corps was constituted on August 27, 1939, in
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1990
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French 1st Army operations, April 15 - May 8, 1945.
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Index

French 1st Corps
First Army (France)
Grande Armée
I Corps (Grande Armée)
France
France
French Army
Corps
First Army (France)
Seventh Army (France)
Adolphe Guillaumat
Henri Martin
Émile Béthouart
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e
Free French
Dakar
Gabon
Keren
Exporter
Kufra
Bir Hakeim
Run for Tunis
Torch
Tunisia
Eastern Front
Husky
Corsica
Monte Cassino

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