December 1944: A German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer captured by troops of the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (3e DIA) near the Col du Bonhomme. The crew of an M10 TD gets a close-up look at the enemy vehicle here. [2/2]

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December 1944: A German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer captured by troops of the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (3e DIA) near the Col du Bonhomme pass in the Vosges, Haut Rhin department. [1/2]

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The 12e GRCA which I've diagrammed here had a particularly long campaign, starting in the Belgian Ardennes on 10 May and finding itself south of the Dordogne at the armistice. Along the way it fought in the famous battle at Stonne and fought a sharp delaying action on the Loire at Blois.

December 1939: French coastal defenses at Zuydcoote, near #Dunkirk.

1. A Quartier-maître 2e Classe of the navy on sentry duty.
2. 120 cm searchlight.
3. Coast defense gun - the caption claims it is 155mm, but I believe it is a 95mm mle 1888.
4. Coastal artillery crew.

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#OnThisDay 20 December 1954: Patrol by the 9e Régiment de Zouaves in Kabylia. [2/2]

The Zouaves search a suspected insurgent who was caught in possession of a Sten gun.

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#OnThisDay 20 December 1954: Patrol by the 9e Régiment de Zouaves in Kabylia, in response to insurgent activity in the area of Tizi-Ouzou. [1/2]

The men are primarily armed with MAS-36 rifles and Sten submachine guns.

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#OnThisDay 19 December 1953 Opération Ardèche - 5e Bataillon de Chasseurs Laotiens on the march. [6/6]

1. Village chief of Houei Lot provides information to officers of the 5e BCL.
2&3. Village women.
4. A 57mm recoiless rifle.

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#OnThisDay 19 December 1953 Opération Ardèche - 5e Bataillon de Chasseurs Laotiens on the march. [5/6]

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#OnThisDay 19 December 1953 Opération Ardèche - Foreign Legionnaires of 2nd Battalion, 3e REI arriving Muong Khoua. [4/6]

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#OnThisDay 19 December 1953 Opération Ardèche - Sikorsky helicopter at Muong Khoua. [3/6]

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#OnThisDay 19 December 1953 Opération Ardèche - Moroccans of the 32e Goum of the 5e Tabor at Muong Khoua. [2/6]

1. Goumier Addou Ben Mohamed
2. Filling sandbags
3. Goumier Ali

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#OnThisDay 19 December 1953 Opération Ardèche - An aggressive patrol into Laos to cut Viet Minh supply routes. One column set out from Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, the other from Muong Khoua in Laos (pictured - with 4e Bat. de Chasseurs Laotiens). [1/6]

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December 1944, Nordhouse, Alsace:

1. Capt. Robert d'Alançon, intelligence officer, examines a map with Lt. Chevalier of 3rd Squadron, 12e Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique.
2. An exhausted soldier of the 4th Squadron, RBFM behind the wheel of a jeep.

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December 1954: The 8e Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (BPC) on patrol in the Aurès mountains.

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December 1944: A mounted column of Moroccan goumiers and an M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage of the 2e DB on the road to Aubure, Upper Rhine Department.

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Air France fleet changes from 1933 to 1936:

📷 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...