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Reunified French Armed Forces during WWII
French Liberation Army
Armée française de la Libération
Active
8 January 1943 (1943-01-08)–1945 (1945)
Country
France Second French Colonial Empire
Type
Army
Size
550,000 (1944)
1,300,000 (1945)
Engagements
Italian campaign Liberation of Corsica Battle of Marseille Operation Overlord Liberation of Paris Operation Dragoon Campaign of France Colmar Pocket French West Africa
Commanders
Notable commanders
Henri Giraud Charles de Gaulle
Insignia
Identification symbol
Military unit
The French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique with the prior Free French Forces (Forces françaises libres or FFL) during World War II. The military force of Free France, it participated in the Italian and Tunisian campaigns before joining in the Liberation of France with other Western Allies of World War II. It went on to join the Western Allied invasion of Germany.
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