User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/europeanfront/1940-05 OOB fortheBattleofFrance

The Battle of France (10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands during the Second World War. On 3 September 1939, France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive and by mid-October had withdrawn to their start lines. German armies invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands on 10 May 1940. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France. France and the Low Countries were conquered, ending land operations on the Western Front until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944.

In Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow"), German armoured units made a surprise push through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium to meet the German armies there. British, Belgian and French forces were pushed back to the sea by the Germans; the British and French navies evacuated the encircled elements of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French and Belgian armies from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.

German forces began Fall Rot ("Case Red") on 5 June 1940. The sixty remaining French divisions and the two British divisions in France made a determined stand on the Somme and Aisne but were defeated by the German combination of air superiority and armoured mobility. German armies outflanked the intact Maginot Line and pushed deep into France, occupying Paris unopposed on 14 June. After the flight of the French government and the collapse of the French Army, German commanders met with French officials on 18 June to negotiate an end to hostilities.

On 22 June 1940, the Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed by France and Germany. The neutral Vichy government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain replaced the Third Republic and German military occupation began along the French North Sea and Atlantic coasts and their hinterlands. The Italian invasion of France over the Alps took a small amount of ground and after the armistice, Italy occupied a small area in the south-east. The Vichy regime retained the zone libre (free zone) in the south. Following the Allied invasion of French Africa in November 1942, the Germans and Italians took control of the zone until it was liberated by the Allies in 1944.

Because the Germans held the strategic initiative, their forces are listed first.

Axis
The commander-in-chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) was Generaloberst Walter von Brauchitsch. Initially the Axis forces consisted of the forces of the German army. They were joined in the conflict by the Italian army on 10 June.

North to south, the German army groups were deployed in this order: B - A - C.

Army Group B
Generaloberst Fedor von Bock Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Hans von Salmuth
 * Sixth Army
 * Generaloberst Walter von Reichenau
 * Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Friedrich Paulus
 * XVI Corps (General der Kavallerie Erich Hoepner)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 4th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Erick-Oskar Hansen)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 33rd Infantry Division (Generalmajor Rudolf Sintzenich)
 * Armor_yellow.png 3rd Panzer Division (Generalmajor Horst Stumpff)
 * Armor_yellow.png 4th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Ludwig Radlmeier thru 8 Jun, then Generalmajor Johann Joachim Stever)
 * IV Corps (General der Infanterie Viktor von Schwedler)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 15th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Ernst-Eberhard Hell)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 205th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Ernst Richter)
 * XI Corps (Generalleutnant Joachim von Kortzfleisch)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 7th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 211th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Kurt Renner)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 31st Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Kaempfe)
 * IX Corps (General der Infanterie Hermann Geyer)
 * XXVII Corps (General der Infanterie Alfred Wäger)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 253th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Fritz Kuhne)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 269th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Ernst-Eberhard Hell)


 * Eighteenth Army
 * General der Artillerie Georg von Küchler
 * Reporting Directly
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Cavalry.svg 1st Cavalry Division (Major General Kurt Feldt)
 * X Corps (General Christian Hansen)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Black_Field.png SS Reinforced Regiment Adolf Hitler (Oberst Sepp Dietrich)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 227th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 207th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Black_Field.png SS Reinforced Regiment Der Führer
 * XXVI Corps (General Albert Wodrig)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 256th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 254th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Black_Field.png SS Division Verfügungstruppe (SS-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser)
 * Armor_yellow.png 9th Panzer Division (Major General Alfred Ritter Von Hubicki)
 * XXXIX Corps (Activated 13 May 1940) (Lieutenant General Rudolf Schmidt)
 * Reserves
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 208th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 225th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 526th Infantry Division
 * Air Landing Corps (Under Luftwaffe control)
 * [[File:Military_Symbol_-_Unknown_Aligned_Unit_(Solid_Quatrefoil_Frame)-_Aviation_(NATO_APP-6).svg|18px]] 7th Air Division
 * [[File:Military_Symbol_-_Unknown_Aligned_Unit_(Solid_Quatrefoil_Frame)-_Infantry_-_Airborne_(NATO_APP-6).svg|18px]] 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division

Army Group A
Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Georg von Sodenstern
 * Fourth Army
 * Generaloberst Günther von Kluge
 * Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Kurt Brennecke
 * II Corps (General der Infanterie Adolf Strauß thru 30 May, then General der Infanterie Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 12th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 32nd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Franz Böhme)
 * V Corps (General der Infanterie Richard Ruoff)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 211th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Kurt Renner)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 251st Infantry Division (Generalmajor Hans Kratzert)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 263rd Infantry Division (Generalmajor Franz Karl)
 * VIII Corps (General der Infanterie Walter Heitz)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 8th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Rudolf Koch-Erpach)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 28th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hans von Obstfelder thru 20 May, then Generalmajor Johann Sinnhuber)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 87th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Bogislav von Studnitz)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 267th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Ernst Fessmann)
 * XV Corps (General der Infanterie Hermann Hoth)
 * Disposition north to south, Yvoir-Houx-Dinant
 * Armor_yellow.png 5th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Max von Hartlieb thru 22 May, Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen 22 May to 6 Jun, then Generalmajor Ludwig Cruwell)
 * Armor_yellow.png 7th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Erwin Rommel)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 62nd Infantry Division (Generalmajor Walter Keiner)


 * Twelfth Army
 * Generaloberst Wilhelm List
 * Chief of Staff: Generalleutnant Eberhard von Mackensen
 * III Corps (General der Artillerie Curt Haase)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 3rd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Walter Lichel)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 23rd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 52nd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hans-Jurgen von Arnim)
 * VI Corps (General of Engineers Otto-Wilhelm Förster)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 16th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Heinrich Krampf)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 24th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Justin von Obernitz thru 1 Jun, then Generalmajor Hans-Valentin Hube)
 * XVIII Corps (General der Infanterie Eugen Beyer thru 1 Jun, then Generalleutnant Hermann Ritter von Speck KIA 15 Jun)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 5th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Wilhelm Fahrmbacher)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 21st Infantry Division (Generalmajor Otto Sponheimer)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 25th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Erich Clößner)
 * Military_Symbol_Mountain_Light_Yellow.png 1st Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Ludwig Kübler


 * Sixteenth Army
 * General der Infanterie Ernst Busch
 * Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Walter Model
 * VII Corps (General der Infanterie Eugen von Schobert)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 36th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Georg Lindemann)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 68th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Georg Braun)
 * XIII Corps (Generalleutnant Heinrich von Vietinghoff)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 15th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 17th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Herbert Loch)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 10th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Konrad von Cochenhausen)
 * XXIII Corps (Generalleutnant Albrecht Schubert)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 34th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Hans Behlendorff)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 58th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Iwan Heunert)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 76th Infantry Divifsion (Generalmajor Maximilian de Angelis)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 26th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Sigismund von Förster)


 * Panzer Group Kleist
 * General der Kavallerie Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
 * Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Kurt Zeitzler
 * XIV Corps (General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry_-_Mechanized.svg 2nd Infantry Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Paul Bader)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry_-_Mechanized.svg 13th Infantry Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry_-_Mechanized.svg 29th Infantry Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp)
 * XL Panzer Corps (Generalleutnant Georg-Hans Reinhardt)
 * Disposition north to south, Montherme
 * Armor_yellow.png 6th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Werner Kempf)
 * Armor_yellow.png 8th Panzer Division (Oberst Erich Brandenberger)
 * XIX Corps (General der Kavallerie Heinz Guderian)
 * Dispositions east to west, Donchery to Sedan
 * Armor_yellow.png 2nd Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel)
 * Armor_yellow.png 1st Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Friedrich Kirchner)
 * Armor_yellow.png 10th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Ferdinand Schaal)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland


 * Reserves
 * XXXX Corps (Generalleutnant Georg Stumme)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 6th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Arnold Freiherr von Biegeleben)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 9th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Georg von Apell)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 4th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Erick-Oskar Hansen)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 27th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Friedrich Bergmann)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 71st Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Karl Weisenberger)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 73rd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Bruno Bieler)

Army Group C
Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
 * First Army
 * Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 197th Infantry Division
 * Höh. Kom. z.b.V. XXXVII (Generalleutnant Alfred Böhm-Tettelbach)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 246th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 215th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 262nd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 257th Infantry Division
 * XXIV Corps (General der Panzertruppe Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 60th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 252nd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 168th Infantry Division
 * XII Corps (Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 75th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 268th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 198th Infantry Division
 * XXX Corps (General der Artillerie Otto Hartmann)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 258th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 93rd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 79th Infantry Division
 * Höh. Kom. z.b.V. XXXXV (General der Infanterie Kurt von Greiff)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 95th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 167th Infantry Division


 * Seventh Army
 * Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann
 * Höh. Kom. z.b.V. XXXIII (General der Kavallerie Georg Brandt)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 213th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 554th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 556th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 239th Infantry Division
 * XXV Corps (General der Infanterie Karl Ritter von Prager)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 557th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 555th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Mountain_Light_Yellow.png 6th Mountain Division
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 218th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 221st Infantry Division

OKH Reserve

 * Second Army
 * General der Kavallerie Maximilian von Weichs
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 267th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 294th Infantry Division
 * IX Corps (General der Infanterie Hermann Geyer)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 15th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 205th Infantry Division
 * XXVI Corps (General der Artillerie Albert Wodrig)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 34th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 45th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 295th Infantry Division
 * VI Corps (General der Pioniere Otto-Wilhelm Förster)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 5th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 293rd Infantry Division


 * Ninth Army
 * Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 211th Infantry Division
 * XXXXII Corps (General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 50th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 291st Infantry Division
 * XXXXIII Corps (Generalleutnant Hermann Ritter von Speck thru 31 May, then Generalleutnant Franz Böhme)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 88th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 96th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 292nd Infantry Division
 * XVIII Corps (General der Infanterie Eugen Beyer)
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 25th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 81st Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_-_Unit_(Solid_Yellow_1.25x1.25_Frame)-_Infantry.svg 290th Infantry Division

Italian Army Group "West"
Prince General Umberto di Savoia
 * 🇮🇹 First Army
 * General Pietro Pintor
 * II Army Corps (General Francesco Bertini)
 * III Army Corps (General Mario Arisio)
 * XV Army Corps (General Gastone Gambara)
 * 🇮🇹 Fourth Army
 * General Alfredo Guzzoni
 * I Army Corps (General Carlo Vecchiarelli)
 * IV Army Corps (General Camillo Mercalli)
 * Alpine Army Corps (General Luigi Negri Cesi)

Overall, the Italian forces numbered about 312,000 troops. However they had inadequate artillery and transport and most were not equipped for the cold Alpine environment.

Allies
The bulk of the forces of the Allies were French, although the United Kingdom (British Expeditionary Force), Netherlands, and Belgium had significant forces in the battle opposing Germany. Supreme Command was held by the French Commander-in-Chief Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin, his deputy Général d'armée Alphonse Joseph Georges was appointed Commander of the North Western Front.

🇫🇷 French 1st Army Group
The French 1st Army Group guarded the north-east frontier of France, ready to move into Belgium and the Netherlands to oppose any German invasion of those nations. The 1st controlled the First, Second, Seventh and Ninth French Armies as well as the Belgian Army and the British Expeditionary Force. Général d'armée Gaston Billotte was Commander-in-Chief until his death in a car crash on 23 May 1940, Général d'armée Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard was appointed to succeed him.

🇫🇷 French forces

 * First Army
 * Général d'armée Georges Maurice Jean Blanchard


 * Cavalry Corps
 * Général de corps d'armée René Prioux
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 2nd Light Mechanized Division
 * Général de brigade Gabriel-Marie-Joseph Bougrain
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd Light Mechanized Division
 * Général de brigade Jean-Léon-Albert Langlois


 * III Corps
 * General de Fornel de la Laurencie
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Motorized Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Moroccan Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 2nd North African Infantry Division


 * IV Corps
 * Général de division Aymes
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 32nd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 15th Motorized Infantry Division
 * Général de brigade Alphonse Juin


 * V Corps
 * Général de corps d'armée René Altmayer
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 5th North African Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 101st Infantry Division


 * Belgian VII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 2nd Chasseurs Ardennais
 * Général de brigade Maurice-Colombe-Louis Keyaerts
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 8th Infantry Division


 * Second Army
 * Général d'armée Charles Huntziger


 * Directly reporting (dispositions north to south)
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 5th Light Cavalry Division
 * Général de brigade Marie-Jacques-Henri Chanoine
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 2nd Light Cavalry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Cavalry Brigade


 * Directly reporting (Reserves)
 * Military_Symbol_Armor_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 4th Tank Battalion
 * Military_Symbol_Armor_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 7th Tank Battalion
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 205th Inf. Regt.
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 213th Inf. Regt. (Lt. Col. Labarthé)


 * X Corps
 * Général de corps d'armée Pierre-Paul-Jacques Grandsard
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 55th Infantry Division
 * Général de brigade Henri-Jean LaFontaine
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 71st Infantry Division
 * Général de brigade Joseph-Antoine-Jacques-Louis Baudet ]
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd North African Infantry Division


 * XVIII Corps
 * Général de division Paul-André Doyen
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Colonial Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd Colonial Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 41st Infantry Division


 * Seventh Army
 * Général d'armée Henri Giraud


 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 21st Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 60th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 68th Infantry Division
 * I Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Light Mechanized Division
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 25th Motorized Division
 * Général de division Molinié
 * XVI Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 9th Motorized Division


 * Ninth Army
 * Général d'armée André Corap


 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 4th North African Infantry Division
 * Général de division Charles-Èugene Sancelme ]
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 53rd Infantry Division
 * Général de brigade Jean-Marie-Léon Etchberrigaray


 * II Corps
 * Général de corps d'armée Jean-Gabriel Bouffet
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 4th Light Cavalry Division
 * Général de division Paul-Louis-Arthur Barbe
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 5th Motorized Division
 * Général de brigade Jean-Noël-Louis Boucher


 * XI Corps
 * Général de corps d'armée Julien-Françoise-René Martin
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Light Cavalry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 18th Infantry Division
 * Général de division Camille-Léon Duffet
 * 66th Regt., 77th Regt., 125th Regt.
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 22nd Infantry Division
 * Général de brigade Joseph-Louis-Françoise Hassler


 * XLI Corps
 * Général de corps d'armée Emmanuel-Urbain Libaud )
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 61st Infantry Division
 * Général de brigade Arsène-Marie Paul Vauthier
 * Military_Symbol_Fortress_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 102nd Fortress Division
 * Général de division Françoise-Arthur Portzert
 * Military_Symbol_Special_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd Spahi Brigade
 * Colonel Marc


 * French Armored Reserves
 * Military_Symbol_Armor_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st Armored Division
 * Général de brigade Marie-Germain-Christian Bruneau
 * Military_Symbol_Armor_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 2nd Armored Division
 * Général de brigade Albert-Charles-Émile Bruché
 * Military_Symbol_Armor_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd Armored Division
 * Général de brigade Georges-Louis Brocard
 * Military_Symbol_Mechanized_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd Motorized Infantry Division]
 * Général de brigade Paul-Jean-Léon Bertin-Bossu
 * Military_Symbol_Armor_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 4th Armored Division
 * Général de brigade Charles de Gaulle

🇧🇪 Belgian Army
The Belgian Army field approximately 600,000 personnel in 22 divisions, backed by 1,338 artillery pieces, 10 tanks and 240 other combat vehicles. King Leopold III of Belgium had assumed personal command of the army upon mobilization. His principal military advisor was Lieutenant-general Raoul van Overstraeten, while General-major Oscar Michiels was Chief of the General Staff.


 * I Corps (Lieutenant-general Alexis van der Veken)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 4th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 7th Reserve Infantry Division
 * II Corps (Lieutenant-general Victor Michem)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 6th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 14th Reserve Infantry Division
 * III Corps (Lieutenant-general Joseph de Krahe)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 2nd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 3rd Infantry Division
 * IV Corps (Lieutenant-general André Bogaerts)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 12th Reserve Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 15th Reserve Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 18th Reserve Infantry Division
 * V Corps (Lieutenant-general Edouard Van den Bergen)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 13th Reserve Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 17th Reserve Infantry Division


 * VI Corps (Lieutenant-general Fernand Verstraete)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 5th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 10th Reserve Infantry Division
 * VII Corps (Lieutenant-general Georges Deffontaine)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 8th Reserve Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 2nd Chasseurs Ardennais Division
 * Cavalry Corps (Lieutenant-general Maximilien de Neve de Roden)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 1st Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 14th Reserve Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 2nd Cavalry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Misc_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png Group Ninitte
 * Group K (Lieutenant-general Maurice Keyaerts)
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 1st Cavalry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 1st Chasseurs Ardennais Division
 * General Reserve
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 11th Reserve Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Thick_White_Borders_Deepest_Green_Field.png 16th Reserve Infantry Division

British Expeditionary Force

 * More detail: British Expeditionary Force order of battle (1940)
 * General Lord Gort


 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Franklyn)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 12th Infantry Division (Major-General Roderic Loraine Petre)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 23rd Infantry Division (Major-General William Norman Herbert)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 46th Infantry Division (Major-General Henry Curtis)


 * I Corps
 * Lieutenant-General Michael Barker (thru 7 Jun)
 * Major-General Harold Alexander (from 7 Jun)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Alexander)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 2nd Infantry Division (Major-General Charles Loyd, succeeded by Brigadier Noel Irwin)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 48th Infantry Division (Major-General Andrew Thorne)


 * II Corps
 * Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke (thru 29 May)
 * Major-General Bernard Montgomery (from 29 May)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 3rd Infantry Division (Major-General Bernard Montgomery, succeeded by Brigadier Kenneth Anderson)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Johnson)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 50th Infantry Division (Major-General Giffard Le Quesne Martel)


 * III Corps
 * Lieutenant-General Ronald Adam
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 42nd Infantry Division (Major-General William Holmes)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Red_Field.png 44th Infantry Division (Major-General Edmund Osborne)

🇫🇷 French 2nd Army Group
The French 2nd Army Group was responsible for manning the bulk of the Maginot Line from Montmédy to south of Strasbourg, and controlled three armies. General de Armee Andre-Gaston Pretelat was Commander-in-Chief of the army group throughout its existence.


 * Directly reporting to the Army Group
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 87th African Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 4th Colonial Infantry Division
 * Third Army
 * General Charles-Marie Condé
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_Cavalry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3rd Light Cavalry Division (General Petiet)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 6th Infantry Division (General Lucien)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 6th North African Infantry Division (General de Verdilhac)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 6th Colonial Infantry Division (General Carles)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 7th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 8th Infantry Division
 * French Colonial Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 2nd Infantry Division (General Klopfenstein)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png British 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (Major-General Victor Fortune)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 56th Infantry Division
 * VI Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 26th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 42nd Infantry Division
 * XXIV Corps (General Fougère)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 51st Infantry Division (General Boell)
 * XLII Corps (General Sivot)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 20th Infantry Division (General Corbe)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 58th Infantry Division (General Perraud)


 * Fourth Army
 * General Edouard Réquin
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Brown_Field.png Polish 1st Infantry Division (General Bronisław Duch)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 45th Infantry division (General Roux)
 * IX Corps (General Laure)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 11th Infantry Division (General Arlabosse)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 47th Infantry Division (General Mendras)
 * XX Corps (General Hubert)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 52nd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 82nd African Infantry Division


 * Fifth Army
 * General Victor Bourret
 * Directly reporting
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 44th Infantry Division
 * VIII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 24th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 31st Infantry Division
 * XII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 16th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 35th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 70th Infantry Division
 * XVII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 62nd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 103rd Infantry Division
 * XLIII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 30th Infantry Division

🇫🇷 French 3rd Army Group
The French 3rd Army Group was responsible for manning the southern end of the Maginot Line, along the River Rhine and controlled one army. The army group's Commander-in-Chief was Général d'Armée Antoine-Marie-Benoit Besson.
 * Eighth Army
 * General Marcel Garchery
 * VII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 13th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 27th Infantry Division
 * XIII Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 19th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 54th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Fortress_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 104th Fortress Division
 * Military_Symbol_Fortress_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 105th Fortress Division
 * XLIV Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 67th Infantry Division
 * XLV Corps
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 57th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 63rd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Brown_Field.png Polish Second Infantry Fusiliers Division (Brigadier-General Bronisław Prugar-Ketling)

🇳🇱 Royal Netherlands Army
The Netherlands had four corps, one motorized division and a defense division deployed to begin the battle. Total strength was 240,000 personnel, equipped with 676 artillery pieces and 32 armoured cars. Generaal Henri Winkelman was Supreme Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army and Navy.
 * Field Army Command
 * Luitenant-generaal Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst
 * II Corps
 * Generaal-majoor Jacob Harberts
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 2nd Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 4th Division
 * III Corps
 * Generaal-majoor Adrianus van Nijnatten
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 5th Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 6th Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png Light Division (Attached)
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png Peel Division (Attached)
 * IV Corps
 * Generaal-majoor Adrianus van den Bent
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 7th Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 8th Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png A, B, G Brigades
 * I Corps
 * Generaal-majoor Nicolaas Carstens
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 1st Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_Black_Border_Orange_Field.png 3rd Division

🇫🇷 French army facing Italy

 * Armee des Alps
 * Général d'Armée René Olry
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 3 infantry divisions of type B
 * XIV Army Corps
 * XV Army Corps
 * Fortification sectors: Dauphiné, Savoie, Alpes Maritimes
 * Defence sectors: Rhône, Nice

Originally the French Sixth Army (the Army of the Alps) was responsible for manning the southeast frontier with Italy. Overall, French forces in the region numbered about 35,000 soldiers.

🇫🇷 French reserves
The French began the battle with three reserve corps positioned behind the army groups. The VII and XXIII Corps were stationed behind the 2nd and 3rd Army Groups.

The following divisions were also kept in reserve:
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 10th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 14th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 23rd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 28th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 29th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 36th Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 43rd Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 1st North African Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 7th North African Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 5th Colonial Infantry Division
 * Military_Symbol_Infantry_White_Border_Medium_Blue_Field.png 7th Colonial Infantry Division

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 * War over Holland May 1940: The Dutch struggle
 * War over Holland May 1940: The Dutch struggle
 * War over Holland May 1940: The Dutch struggle
 * War over Holland May 1940: The Dutch struggle