This website is a database of pictures
related with the french army of 1939-1940, and the 1930's, found on the
World Wide Web, or anywhere else.
This dark period of the french History is
unknow. By the french themselves, and the foreign peoples.
A lot of things have been said about this
period. Many of them were not true, and many 'historians' wrote errors,
repeating wrong things or popular beleives.
These men fought bravely when they had
the occasion to do so, and on the paper, the French army of may 1940 was
able to beat the Germans, or at least to stop them.
This website is my little participation
on this huge task, to try to allow the people to have another view of
this period. This website is in memory of the 92 000 Frenchmen and
colonial troops that died in 6 weeks.
Nowadays, that's still difficult to find
pictures of french equipment. In the books, on the Net. This is why this
website is done. You will find here hundreds of
classified pictures: air, infantry, tanks, artillery, navy, etc...
Pictures are uploaded very often, but no
news will be added to tell it. So don't forget to re-visit this website,
you'll find more pictures.
Note something: on this website, you will
find many pictures (that's especially true for the tanks folders) of
burned tanks. There is a reason: 70% of the available pictures of the
may-june battles have been taken by the german PK (Propaganda Kompanies)
were following closely the german troops. They exclusively photographied
french/british losses of course, for propaganda. The french pictures,
taken during the battle, are relatively rare: the french troopers were
not allowed to have cameras, and the ECPA (media bureau of the french
army) stocks of photos are still under exploited. Thousands of pictures
are still sleeping in the archives. Add to this, the fact that they had
few occasions to photography german losses, because most of the time,
they were behind german lines, the French were leading a defensive
combat.
This website is totally free, and the
webmaster don't earn any money. I know that some pictures here could be under
a copyright. I'm really sorry if you are the owner, and if we have
uploaded it,beleiving that it would be free. But I don't have the time to
verify which picture belong to who, and the Net is arena where the laws
are not always respected. If you find a picture here that you own,
please e-mail me, and I'll remove it.
This website is for an educative role.
This not a negationist website: the defeat was here.
Click on the desired folder:
Aircrafts
Bombers
Fighters
Prototypes
Reconnaissance
Artillery
Anti
Aircraft
Anti
Tank
Heavy
artillery
Light
artillery
Prototypes
Rail
artillery
Infantry
Helmets
Uniforms
Small
arms
Maginot
line
Maps
Navy
Aircraft
carriers
Battleships
Contre-torpilleurs
Cruisers
Submarines
Torpilleurs
Tanks
Armored reconaissance
AMR
35
Panhard
178
Battle tanks
B1bis
D1
D2
S
35
Light tanks
FCM
2C
FCM
36
H
35 and H 39
R
35
Chenillettes
Other
Prototypes
You have found an interessant unit? You
want to know more about it? Ask on the [Forum]
!
If you want to know more...
Links:
Blindés Français
au 1/35° [ Exellent website with a lot of pictures, and
beautifull models ]
France 1940 [
The famous France 1940 website. A lot of informations. Don't forget
its very active & interesting mailing-list ]
French
battleships [ A webpage about the french
battleships ]
La
Royale en 1939 [ Very good site about the
Marine Nationale during WW2, a lot of data ]
En pointe
toujours [ Interessant page, especially for
the B1bis ]
Tanks! [
An awesome webpage, with the history of the armored forces of the
world. Important french part. But slow, and low quality pictures ]
World War Two Online [
The official webiste of WW2 Online, a massive online game, including
the French campaign & units ]
@rmée Française [
The french community website for WW2 Online ]
Avions de la bataille de
France [ Exellent website, an huge list of
links about the french aircrafts of the 1940 campaign ]
Blitzkrieg 1940 [
An exellent website if you want to have a general view on the Battle
of France ]
Les
ailes de la Royale [ An article about the LN
411, the assault aircraft of the Aeronavale, the equivalent of the
Fleet Air Arm ]
Maps of
Blitzkrieg campaigns 1939-1941 [ Maps of thz
Battle of France ]
Panser.dk, AFV profiles
[ Full profiles of some french tanks, very
interessant ]
Fall of the Low
Countries and France [ An interessant
explanation of the operation of may-june 1940, especially for someone
who don't know anything about it ]
France
1940 reinactment [ Beautifull picture of a
french uniform, especially made for a reinactment ]
La voie militaire française
de 60 en 1939/1940 [ A nice website about
the french military railroad ]
Radio libre
[ An extremly emotive online book ( a lot of
pages) talking about a french resistant. From the débacle until the
concentration camps and the end of the war. ]
French
empire timeline 1940-1945 [ A good website
about the french empire during WW2]
THE
FRENCH AIR FORCE IN 1940 [ Exellent article
about the Armée de l'Air in 1940, by the US Lieutnant colonel
Kirkland ]
Les casques
Adrian [ Nice site about the good old Adrian
helmet (used in the french army from 1915 to the 50's ]
Le paradis des
collectionneurs [ Exellent website,
collection of old weapons, you can find some french WW2 hardware for
sale ]
INSIGNES
AVIATION MILITAIRE FRANCAISE [ You'll find
many french squadrons insignias there ]
AMS [
Some french WW2 hardware for sale there ]
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the Battle of France, e-mail me
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