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3rd Army Group (France)

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Army Group 3 (Groupe d'Armées 3 (GA 3)) was a French Army formation during the Second World War, stationed along the river Rhine manning the Maginot line. [1]

13 relations: Antoine-Marie-Benoît Besson, Eighth Army (France), Fort de Giromagny, Fortified region of Belfort, Fortified Sector of Altkirch, Fortified Sector of Montbéliard, Fortified Sector of the Jura, French Army, Maginot Line, Marcel Garchery, Ornans, Rhine, World War II.

Antoine-Marie-Benoît Besson

Antoine-Marie-Benoit Besson (1876–1969) was a French military officer.

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Eighth Army (France)

The Eighth Army (VIIIe Armée) was a Field army of the French Army during World War I and World War II.

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Fort de Giromagny

Fort de Giromagny, also known as Fort Dorsner, was built near Belfort in northeastern France between 1875 and 1879.

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Fortified region of Belfort

The fortified region of Belfort (place fortifiée de Belfort) formed the first line of defense in the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in the Belfort Gap.

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Fortified Sector of Altkirch

The Fortified Sector of Altkirch (Secteur Fortifiée d'Altkirch) was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the French frontier with Germany and Switzerland in the vicinity of Basel.

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Fortified Sector of Montbéliard

The Fortified Sector of Montbéliard (Secteur Fortifié de Montbéliard) was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the French border with Switzerland in the vicinity of Montbéliard.

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Fortified Sector of the Jura

The Fortified Sector of the Jura (Secteur Fortifiée du Jura) was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the French frontier with Switzerland in the general area of Besançon.

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French Army

The French Army, officially the Ground Army (Armée de terre) (to distinguish it from the French Air Force, Armée de L'air or Air Army) is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.

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Maginot Line

The Maginot Line (Ligne Maginot), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.

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Marcel Garchery

Jeanny-Jules-Marcel Garchery (16 June 1876 - 25 April 1961) was a French general.

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Ornans

Ornans is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Army Group 3 (France), French 3rd Army Group.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Army_Group_(France)

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