French soldiers of the 3rd hussards training in la Courtine, Corrèze, may 1942.

Vichy troops charging

A French guard helps to keep watch over dozens of Jewish prisoners in one of the Vichy operated internment camps. Inmates at these prisons were often guarded by the French until they could be handed over to the Germans for transportation to Nazi death camps.

Vichy Prison

A Martin B-26 Marauder of Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres (Free French Air Force) bombing a target on Italy, likely on Northern Appenines, 1944. After the Operation Torch the Americans re-equipped three French bomber squadrons with Marauders for medium bombing operations in Italy and the Allied invasion of southern France. 