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3rd Foreign Parachute Regiment
3e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes
Regiment Insignia
ActiveSeptember 1, 1955 – December 1, 1955
DisbandedDecember 1, 1955
Country3rd Foreign Parachute Regiment France
Branch French Army
TypeAirborne forces
Part of
  • 3e B.E.P I Formation, 1949
  • 3e B.E.P II Formation, 1951
  • 3e B.E.P III Formation, 1954
  • 3e B.E.P IV Formation, 1954
  • 3e R.E.P, 1955
  • 2e R.E.P from 3e R.E.P and 2e B.E.P Merger
Garrison/HQBatna
Philippeville
Insignia
Abbreviation3e REP

The 3rd Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 3e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes, 3e R.E.P) was a parachute regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army and previous 3rd Foreign Parachute Battalion, (3e BEP) from September 1, 1955, to December 1, 1955.[1][2]

Based at Batna, the regiment becomes operational but then is dissolved on December 1, 1955; the legionnaires constituting the regiment are merged with the 2e BEP to form a new unit, the 2e REP.[1]

  1. ^ a b [1] Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, History of the 2e REP, the 3rd Foreign Parachute Battalion 3e Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes
  2. ^ Windrow, Martin (1985). French Foreign Legion Paratroops. pp. 17.

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