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Florence Conrad, Suzanne Torrès and the Rochambelles on the quay at Southampton, ready to cross into France, July 30, 1944. Photo courtesy of the Musée de la Libération.

The Rochambelles were the first women’s unit integrated into an armored division on the western front during World War II. A total of 51 women served in the First Company, 13th medical battalion of the French Second Armored Division from 1943 to 1945, and then some members continued on to Indochina.

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