France

France, officially the French Republic (French: République française) is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean.
During the Second World War, Fance was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany. France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and Vichy France, a newly established authoritarian regime collaborating with Germany, in the south. In London, meanwhile, a government-in-exile, Free France, led by Charles de Gaulle, was set up.
== Second World War ==
===Army===
*French 1st Army
*2nd French Armoured Division
*3rd Special Air Service
*4th Special Air Service
*Corps Léger d'Intervention
=== Navy ===
*1st Marine Commando Battalion (formerly 1 and 8 Troop, 10 Commando)
*1st Fusilier-Marine Armoured Regiment (part of the 2nd Armoured Division)
*Battleships:
**Courbet - scuttled during the Battle of Normandy
**Paris
**Richelieu - switched to the Alliesi in 1943
*Cruisers:
**Georges Leygues - switched to the Allies in 1943
**Gloire - switched to the Allies in 1943
**Montcalm - switched to the Allies in 1943
**Suffren - switched to the Allies in 1943
*Destroyers:
**La Combattante - lost 23 Feb 1945 
**Léopard - wrecked off Benghazi, 27 May 1943 
**Mistral
**Ouragan
**Triomphant
*Frigates:
**Algérien
**Aventure 
**Croix de Lorraine
**Découverte
**Escarmouche
**Hova
**Marocain 
**Sénégalais 
**Somali
**Surprise 
**Tonkinois 
**Tunisien 
*Corvettes:
**Aconit
**Alysse - lost 9 February 1942
**Commandant d'Estienne d'Orves
**Commandant Détroyat
**Commandant Drogou 
**Lobélia
**Mimosa - lost 9 June 1942
**Renoncule 
**Roselys 
*Motor torpedo boats:
**MTB 90
**MTB 91
**MTB 92 
**MTB 94
**MTB 96
**MTB 98
**MTB 227 
**MTB 239
*Patrol boats:
**Poulmic - struck a mine off Portsmouth, 7 November 1940
*Submarines:
**Curie 
**Doris
**Iris
**Junon
**Minerve
**Morse 
**Narval
**Rubis
**Surcouf
===Royal Air Force===
*No. 326 Squadron
*No. 327 Squadron
*No. 328 Squadron
*No. 329 Squadron
*No. 340 Squadron
*No. 341 Squadron
*No. 342 Squadron
*No. 343 Squadron
*No. 344 Squadron
*No. 345 Squadon
*No. 346 Squadron
*No. 347 Squadron 
==People==
*Jacques Andrieux, RAF flying ace
*Pierre Clostermann, RAF flying ace
*Raymond Couraud, SAS officer
*Philippe Kieffer, commando
*René Mouchotte, RAF pilot
*André Zirnheld, first French SAS casualty
Category:French military personnel