Battle of France
May 10 – June 25, 1940
Related events (1 degree away • 2 degrees away)
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.
Commanders
Axis 4
Adolf Hitler
· 1889–1945
Fedor von Bock
Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group B (northern wing) · 1880–1945
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group C (southern wing, against the Maginot Line) · 1876–1956
Gerd von Rundstedt
Field Marshal, Commander of Army Group A (Ardennes breakthrough) · 1875–1953
Allies 3
Maxime Weygand
General, Allied supreme commander, 19 May - 22 June 1940 · 1867–1965
Maurice Gamelin
General, Allied commander-in-chief until his dismissal on 19 May 1940 · 1872–1958
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
General, Commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force; organized the Dunkirk evacuation · 1886–1946
