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Would people one day say France did a good job during World War Two?Better than the job of the noisy talkatives of the internet, surely and it's already done.In this topic on Quora it is difficult to admit that the French republic declared war on Nazi Germany with the United Kingdom in September 1939 i.e. long before the overseas supermen of America First and of the Neutrality Act and the great patriotic heroes who were at that time allied with Hitler.It is difficult to admit that thousands of French people continued to fight against Nazi Germany in 1940 and 1941 when none or almost none of the nationalities of today's talkative people did so at the time.It is difficult to recognize an outsatnding heroism during the French campaign in 1940, in Narvik, in Eritrea in early 1941 and later in Libya the same year.It is difficult to admit that 3,600 French probably saved the British 8th Army at Bir Hakeim from annihilation in June 1942 by blocking Rommel and the best elite troops of the Afrika Korps at 1 to 10 and then after 14 days of resistance broke the siege and rejoined the Allied lines on order.It is difficult to admit that they played a very important role in the Allied victory at Monte Cassino by breaking two German lines of resistance in the east after having climbed steep hills, forcing the Germans to withdraw from Monte Cassino and they were forced to stop on the orders of General Clark when they could have seized Rome.(Confirmed by the testimonies of the Germans and Clark).It is difficult to recognize that 177 French commandoes landed in Normandy and swept like an irresistible torrent through the German defences at Ouistreham.It is difficult to admit that the first French army was in the majority at the landing of Provence and that it rushed so fast that it was 90 days ahead of schedule.It is difficult to admit that General Leclerc's Second Armoured Division won outstanding victories in Normandy and northern France and that it was part of Patton's spearhead, the 15th Corps.It is difficult to acknowledge that the French army was at the end of the war in Germany and had a strength of 1.3 million men.So, maybe the other allies played a big role in World War II, but the role of the French was far from being a bad one.After all, they were quite alone in 1940, and they recovered after a terrible defeat to end the war victoriously in 1945.And even though their armies were re-equipped by the Americans, they actively participated in the liberation of their country and in the victory against Nazi Germany.There would be so much more to write about this Second World War that you like to talk about so much in the Anglosphere...What they did at Bir Hakeim in 1942 is beyond imagination.

There were actually quite a few:Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque, commander of the 2nd French Armored Division and liberator of Paris and Strasbourg, signed the Japanese surrender on behalf of France in 1945.Alphonse Pierre Juin, Commander of the French Expeditionary Corps, in Italy, his troops were responsible for the breaking of the German Gustav Line in 1944.Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, commander of the First French Army in the invasion of Southern France and the advance to the German border and the campaign in Southern Germany.Marie-Pierre Kœnig, commander of French troops defending Bir Hakeim, and of the French Forces of the Interior, Military Governor of Paris and French Chief of Staff.

Free French Foreign Legionnaires assaulting an Axis strong point at the battle of Bir Hakeim, 1942:In the Second World War:The Foreign Legion played a smaller role in World War II in mainland Europe than in World War I, though there was involvement in many exterior theatres of operations, notably sea transport protection through to the Norwegian, Syria-Lebanon, and North African campaigns. The 13th Demi-Brigade, formed for service in Norway, found itself in the UK at the time of the French Armistice (June 1940), was deployed to the British 8th Army in North Africa and distinguished itself in the Battle of Bir Hakeim (1942). Reflecting the divisions of the time, part of the Foreign Legion joined the Free French movement while another part served the Vichy government. German legionnaires were incorporated into the Wehrmacht's 90th Light Infantry Division in North Africa.[32]The Syria–Lebanon Campaign of June 1941 saw legionnaire fighting legionnaire as the 13e D.B.L.E clashed with the 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment 6e REI at Damascus. Nevertheless, many legionnaires of the 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment 6e (dissolved on December 31, 1941) integrated the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion R.M.L.E in 1942. Later, a thousand of the rank-and-file of the Vichy Legion unit joined the 13e D.B.L.E. of the Free French forces which were also part as of September 1944 of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's successful Amalgam of the French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération,), the (400,000 men) amalgam consisted of the Armistice Army, the Free French Forces and the French Forces of the Interior which formed Army B and were later part of the French 1st Army with forces also issued from the French Resistance.More:World War II: A Tale of the French Foreign LegionOfficial: Foreign Legion: Second World War 1939-1945