French Forces

Officers from the Resistance

Oderen, Haut-Rhin département, Alsace region, North-East France, december 1944. Two french officers of the Pommies Corps-Franc. They both wear french helmets for motorized troops. The one on the left has a german white coat and a apparently a british sten gun. The one on the right has a US overcoat and a german walther handgun. The Pommies Corps-Franc (from the name of his chief, André Pommies) was a fighting resistance group of South-West France. Numbering 3000 fighters in june 1944, they led a guerilla war against the Germans before heading North and being integrated in the 1st armored division. They fought in the Vosges, in Alsace and in Germany, and ended the campaign in Stuttgart as a regular infantry regiment.