1 ere armée (France)

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The 1 ere armée ( German  1st Army ) was a large unit of the French army that fought in the First and Second World Wars and was active in the Cold War .

First World War

The army was one of five French armies set up by the Grand Quartier Général on August 2, 1914, according to Plan XVII , with its headquarters in Épinal . The 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th and 21st Army Corps were subordinate to it at the beginning of the war. She fought in the border battles near Mulhouse , in the Vosges and in Lorraine . In 1916 the army fought in the Battle of the Somme , in 1917 in the Third Battle of Flanders and in 1918 in the Battle of Amiens . After the Armistice of Compiègne in November 1918 it was dissolved.

Commander in chief

Second World War

The army was re-established on September 3, 1939 as part of the mobilization of the French army. You were subordinate to the 3rd, 4th and 5th Army Corps and a cavalry corps. During the German campaign in the west , it was cut off in northern France together with the British Expeditionary Force and destroyed in the Lille area ; it ceased to exist on May 29th. A smaller part of the troops was evacuated during Operation Dynamo .

On September 25, 1944, the army from the B Army, which had previously carried out Operation Dragoon , was reorganized and fought mainly in southern Germany as part of the 6th US Army Group .

See main article: 1st Army (France 1944-45)

Commander in chief

after reorganization

Cold War

In the Cold War the 1st Army was active again and controlled the I., II. And III. Corps and Pluton units.

literature

  • Les Armées françaises dans la Grande guerre ( AFGG ) , Tome X / Vol. 1: Ordre de bataille des grandes unités. , Paris 1923, pp. 41–45, digitized on Gallica .