Admittedly, the numbers I previously posted were given from memory and are (after verification) not entirely correct. It actually is very...
In 6 weeks of figthing the french air force lost 800-900 planes and downed some 700-800 german planes while sitting on their butts.... :eek:
From what I know 2 french units were equipped with Panther tanks after the war. These were 6 eme Cuirassiers based in Olivet and 503 RCC based in...
Sorry, double post.
Actually from ausust to december 1940, the french army lost some 61.000 KIA a month.(More so in august - september, lesser for the remaining...
It is important to remember that it was actually FDR forces, supported by the army of Ouganda that had started the war by invading Rwanda. France...
Basically there were two kind of Vichy forces, the Armée Nouvelle (New army) in metropolitan France, and the colonial army abroad. The new army...
Since(as I expected) you are obviously neither willing (or capable) to show a single source confirming your "french=incompetent" thesis nor...
Here is a link to a map of the evolution of the western front from august to november 1918. The army called BEF isa the british army. The...
Well, spontaneously, the Somme offensive springs to mond for the british. Over 50.000 men lost during the first day of the offensive, hundreds of...
As I expected you did not answer my question as to which allied army in WW1 fought more sucessfully as the french. It is commonly admitted by...
Any source for that claim?What allied army actually was more sucessfull than the french one? Again, do you have any sources that say that french...
Please tell me where I said that french military leaders in WW1 were geniouses??But then who were the geniouses in the german, the british, the...
What do you mean by always. For example in 1806, the french army defeated the prussian army in only 2 days, and Napoleon conquered Prussia in a...
Actually it was Austria rather than Prussia or Russia that was France's most persistent ennemy on land, and took most ot the burden of figthing in...
Thanks for the numbers. So in both campaigns there were more Skodas that PZKW III's? I recall that in Fance there were around 350 PZKW 3....
Actually the shares of the company were owned by Britain and France. France and Egypt had build the canal in the 1860's, but later, Britain bought...
An important czech contribution to the war certainly were the over 600 Skoda 35t and 38 t tanks the Wehrmacht used to conquer Poland and...
Before the end of the polish campaign large numbers of polish troops crossed the border into Romania.The romanian governement allowed them to...
This was certainly one of the major international crisis during the Cold war period, and it surprisingly gets rather limited interest in public...
