North East France, april 1940, phoney war.
This french corps-franc fighter is equipped with two axes to open his way in the no man's land. Note the short rifle.
The soldier in the background wears big trench overboots.

Some wood to cut?

April, 8 1945: 700 Free French Special Air Service operators (Maj. Pierre Sicaud) from the 3rd and 4th SAS, are parachuted into eastern Holland in Operation Amherst, to clear the way for Canadian troops who are moving North. A series of running battles between the French, the Germans and Dutch Nazi collaborators left no civilian casualties but plenty of German and Dutch collaborators, dead. The French casualties were minimal.

Maj. Sicaud receiving the DSO

Spring 1940. Two french soldiers show a german border sign. "D" is for "Deutschland".