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Part of World War II

Battle of France

May 10 – June 25, 1940

Result Axis victory

German invasion of the Low Countries and France from 10 May to 25 June 1940. In Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armour advanced through the Ardennes, crossed the Meuse, and drove to the Channel; Fall Rot (Case Red) then finished off the French and British after the Dunkirk evacuation, and the Low Countries and France were defeated and occupied.

Overview Contemporaries

Axis

Allies

Other

Germany
Italy
France
United Kingdom
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Poland
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler Hermann Göring military commander Gerd von Rundstedt Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group A (Ardennes breakthrough) Fedor von Bock Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group B (northern wing) Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group C (southern wing, against the Maginot Line) Walther von Brauchitsch military commander
Maxime Weygand General, Allied supreme commander, 19 May - 22 June 1940 Maurice Gamelin General, Allied commander-in-chief until his dismissal on 19 May 1940 John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort General, Commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force; organized the Dunkirk evacuation Leopold III of Belgium military commander Georges Blanchard military commander Gaston Billotte military commander

Strength and losses

Germany Killed 27,074 · Wounded 111,034 · Missing 18,384 · Tanks lost 795–822 · Aircraft lost 1,236–1,428

Casualties
2,084,000
Killed
73,000
Wounded
240,000
Captured
1,756,000
Missing
15,000
Tanks
3,383–4,071
Aircraft
2,935
Guns
13,974

Units

Army Group A Panzergruppe Kleist Army Group B 7th Army (Wehrmacht) Army Group C 12th Army (Wehrmacht) 16th Army (Wehrmacht) 18th Army (Wehrmacht) 1st Army (Italy) 1st Army (Wehrmacht) 2nd Army (Wehrmacht) 4th Army (Wehrmacht) 6th Army (Wehrmacht) Italian Fourth Army (1915–1918) I Army Corps (Wehrmacht) IV Army Corps (Wehrmacht) IX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) V Army Corps (Wehrmacht) VII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) VIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XIX Army Corps XLVII Panzer Corps XV Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) XXXXIV Army Corps (Wehrmacht) 10th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 15th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 161st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 17th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 18th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 197th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 1st Cavalry Division (Wehrmacht) 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring 1st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 212th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 215th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 218th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 225th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 24th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 253rd Infantry Division 255th Infantry Division 258th Infantry Division 260th Infantry Division 269th Infantry Division 290th Infantry Division 294th Infantry Division 295th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 299th Infantry Division 2nd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich 30th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 32nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 34th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 36th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 393rd Infantry Division 3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 44th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 4th Panzer Division 50th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 56th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 57th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 58th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 5th Alpine Division "Pusteria" 5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 60th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 6th Panzer Division 711th Infantry Division 71st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 72nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 75th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 81st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 83rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 88th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 8th Panzer Division Luftflotte 2 Jagdgeschwader 77 Kampfgeschwader 55
1st Army (France) 1st Army Tank Brigade (United Kingdom) 2nd Army (France) 4th Army (France) 5th Army (France) 8th Army (France) Belgian Army Belgian Army (1940) British Expeditionary Force French Ninth Army (1940) French Seventh Army (1940) French Third Army (1914–1918) Royal Netherlands Army (1940) 102nd Fortress Division 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division 12th Infantry Division (France) 152nd Infantry Division (France) 16th Infantry Division (France) 1st Colonial Infantry Division 1st Infantry Division (France) 21st Infantry Division (France) 23rd (Northumbrian) Division 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 2nd Light Mechanized Division 4th Colonial Infantry Division (France) 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division 51st (Highland) Division 55th Infantry Division (France) 7th North African Infantry Division 84th African Infantry Division 87th African Infantry Division 8th Infantry Division (France) 1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers 84th Infantry Regiment (France) No. 226 Squadron RAF
2nd Armoured Division (France, 1940) 4th Infantry Division (Poland)

Battles 9

Before and after

Ended by
Armistice of 22 June 1940 June 22, 1940

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