Saison 4: Francais AN - complétée

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French overseas tank deployment in 1939-40 was something like this :

TUNISIA :
*Groupement de Bataillons de Chars 521 (GBC 521 - Lt-Col Valogne) with :
- 61e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (61e BCC - Maj des Rieux and later Cap De Sèze), D 1
tanks, disbanded Oct 40
- 64e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (64e BCC - Maj Duplessis), FT 17 tanks, formerly in
Algeria, disbanded Oct 40
- 65e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (65e BCC - Maj Charre), D 1 tanks, disbanded Oct 40
- 67e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (66e BCC - Maj Valleteau), D 1 tanks (sent to France in
June 1940 and disbanded there same month).

MOROCCO :
Groupement de Bataillons de Chars 522 (GBC 521 - Col Muiron and later Lt-Col Charuit)
with :
- 62e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (61e BCC - Maj Bringoux), FT 17 and later 2 coys
converted to R 35 tanks, disbanded Nov 40
- 66e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (66e BCC - Maj Janin), FT 17 tanks, disbanded Nov
40

SYRIA :
*Groupement de Bataillons de Chars 523 (GBC 523 - Lt-Col Azire) with :
- 63e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (61e BCC - Maj Roux), R 35 tanks, disbanded Oct 40
- 68e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (64e BCC - Maj Duplessis), R 35 tanks, Maj C. Murat,
disbanded Dec 40

INDOCHINA :
2 companies of FT 17 tanks divided between 3 motorised detachments (North, Central and
South Vietnam), about 20 still operational, but barely, in 1939. See my "FT 17, Japanese
Tanks and Chaffees " post in the Indochina thread for more details.
This gives a total of 2 companies of R 35 tanks, 7 of FT 17s (all gun-armed) and 6 of D 1
tanks remaining in North Africa in July 1940 and 6 companies of R 35 tanks in Syria/Lebanon.


In accordance with the armistice terms, all tank units were disbanded in late 1940, but while
_no_ tanks were allowed in the armistice army in France, the overseas army was allowed to
retain some in cavalry units (mainly to fight off the British and Free French).

Some time after the British/Free French attempt to take Dakar, Vichy obtained permission to
send one squadron of SOMUA S 35 to Dakar. Meanwhile, in North Africa, the R 35s went
partly to the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique (RCA) in Casablanca and partly to the 2e
RCA in Marrakech while some of the D1s equipped one squadron of the 4e RCA in Tunisia.
In Syria, the 63e and 68e BCC were disbanded to form the 1er and 2e Régiment de
Découverte et de Combat (RDC - Deep Recce and Combat Regiment) which were later
renamed 6e and 7e RCA.

All remaining tanks (apart from about 24 FTs used by security detachments in Morocco) were
stored under control of the German and Italian armistice commissions. The tanks in Syria saw
combat against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces and were turned over to the
Free French (whose own tank force until then had been 1 company of Hotchkiss H 39s
repatriated from Norway to England) after the Vichy forces surrendered.

In 1943, the number of French tanks remaining in North Africa was estimated as 107 D1s, 58
modern light tanks (R 35s), 1 AO Type B tank (very much a mystery tank, perhaps a surviving
B1 ter prototype although its transport was supposedly sunk on the way to Algeria), 363 FT
17s.

Most of the R 35s (and a few FT 17s) were wiped out during Operation Torch fighting the
Americans. The D1s were used to form the Brigade Légère Mécanique (BLM - Light
Mechanised Brigade) which fought the Axis forces in Tunisia from late November 1942 (it
later included the Dakar squadron of SOMUAS which was sent to Tunisia).

From February 1943, this unit (renamed Groupement du Vigier or Groupement Blindé
Français) was re-equipped with British-supplied Valentines which nearly ends the use of
French tanks by French forces.

Only nearly, because from the Summer of 1944, as France was gradually liberated, the
provisional French government sought to raise new forces by using anything it could lay its
hands on, including French vehicles that had been impressed into service or hidden from the
armistice commission by Vichy forces.

As a result, the 13e Régiment de Dragons created in October 1944 and used to reduce the
German pocket in Royan was issued with 17 SOUMUA S 35 and 19 B1 bis (along with 14
British Centaurs) by February 1945.

Siaba a écrit:
Pour le sable, je me contentais de saupoudrer du sable fin sur de la colle à bois. Tu pense que la texture AK apporte un effet visuel supérieur ?