A quick jump back to Spring 1940: A Groupe Franc of the 5e Armée on patrol in the no-man's-land in front of the Maginot Line, possibly in the Haguenau area.
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March 1940: Crowds of eager soldiers on leave pile onto trains at the Massy-Palaiseau station, south of Paris (still a key transport hub today).
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I'm hitting the road across south Wales in March to chat all things 'Weights and Measures'. It would be great to see reader and writer friends at Caldicot, Llantwit Major, Swansea and Penarth. Details here:
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#OnThisDay 20 February 1940 Chevrolet ambulances of the "John J. Pershing" 1st American Volunteer Ambulance Section (Section sanitaire de volontaires américains n°1 (SSVA) "John J. Pershing") in and around Nancy.
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February or March 1940, 4th Army sector in Lorraine: Chasseurs Alpins transported aboard a requisitioned Renault TN4B passenger bus.
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February 1940: Patrol along the front in the 4th Army sector.
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February 1940: Horse-drawn wagons of the 3rd Army, possibly at the Chevert barracks in Thionville (Moselle department).
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Vi lever på mange måder i året 1939, hvor England og Frankrig erklærer Polen for uafhængig, med en garanti om enhver form for hjælp, hvis Adolf skulle angribe landet.
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#OnThisDay in January 1940, cavalrymen of the 3e Brigade de Spahis maneuver a 25mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun during 9th Army exercises in the Ardennes. [1/2]
Great illustration of this relatively lightweight and easily-concealable weapon was employed!
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Activity in the port of Marseille, 1939-40, with colonial tirailleurs freshly-arrived from Africa.
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From the same series: Renault R35s of the 5e BCC in a village, Moselle department, December 1939. The final photo is a closeup view of the Casque modèle 35 helmet for armored units along with a pair of ANP 31 gas mask bags.
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December 1939: Mechanics perform maintenance and repair work on a Renault R35 of the 5e Bataillon de Chars de Combat (5e BCC), somewhere in the Moselle department.
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November/December 1939: Trenches in the 4th Army sector in the Moselle. Two soldiers in the second photo are wearing the mle 1935 motorized helmet; they are perhaps part of a division recon group (GRDI).
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December 1939: Soldiers of the 2nd Army enjoy a film presentation while in winter quarters during the phoney war.
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A Morris CS9 armored car of the BEF zipping past the cameraman in Avesnes-le-Comte, Pas-de-Calais department, sometimes in the autumn of 1939.
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Munitions and supplies entrance to an unidentified Maginot Line fortress, November 1939.
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It is possible, though not certain, that this airman was aboard this Dornier Do 17, downed in the 2nd Army sector by an RAF Hurricane in November 1939.
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Gendarmes interrogate a downed Luftwaffe airman in the 2nd Army sector, November 1939. The German aviator does not look particularly eager to be photographed.
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Soldiers of the 4e Armée in the Moselle, November 1939. They appear to be equipped with Lebel mle 1886 8mm rifles and outiftted in the tenue de campagne mle 1935, with ANP 31 gas mask bags.
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Stalmer is just another f@cking #Chamberlain.
This time the UK has no #Churchills. Only benders for cash. (Off shoring their ‘gifts’ of course, the Boris and Cameron way). #PhoneyWar
80 years ago #WW2 was nearly a month old & people were joking about the #PhoneyWar. It was never phoney at sea. First #CoastalConvoys began on 6 September 1939, London needed 40,000+ tons of coal a week & roads & railways couldn’t provide it. The East Coast was brutal from day 1.
