9th Motorized Division

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9th Motorized Division
9e division d'infanterie motorisée
Insigne de la 9e Division d'Infanterie.jpg
Unit insignia
Active1873 - 1962
Country France
Branch French Army
Type Motorized infantry
Engagements World War I
World War II
Algerian War
Cold War

The French 9th Motorized Division originally known as the 9th Infantry Division, was a French Army division active during World War I, World War II and the Algerian War. [1]

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Battle Of France 1940

During the Battle of France in May 1940, the division contained the following units:[ citation needed ]

The division was an active division which had existed during peacetime. It was a fully motorized infantry division.

Algerian War

The 9th Infantry Division was recreated within the 1st Military Region (Île-de-France, Paris region), with headquarters in Versailles, as part of the Valmy Plan (by calling up the contingent during the Algerian War and recalling the liberated classes). [2] It arrived in Algeria in June 1956.

It took part in operations in the Orléansville area, west of Algiers. [3] It formed part of the Algiers military division (which became the Algiers army corps in 1958 and then the 23rd Army Corps in 1962). [4] It was dissolved on 31 December 1962. [3]

The division was part of the Algiers Corps Area in 1960, during the Algerian War. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Horne, Alistair (1969). To lose a battle; France 1940. Boston, Little, Brown. p. 399.
  2. ↑ Sicard, Jacques (September 2000). "Les grandes unités d'AFN et leurs insignes, 1954-1962". Militaria Magazine (182): 30–38.
  3. 1 2 Sicard 2000.
  4. ↑ Thierry Sarmant; Philippe Schillinger; Michel Hardy (2000). Inventory of series H, sub-series 1 H1091-4881: Algeria 1945-1967 (PDF). Vol. I – General introduction. Château de Vincennes: Army Historical Service. pp. 40, 46. ISBN   2-86323-129-4. ISSN   1269-7397..
  5. ↑ Shrader, Charles R. (1999). "Appendix A: Major French Combat Forces in Algeria in 1960". The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria 1954-62. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 237–238.

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