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2nd Armored Division (France)
The French 2nd Armored Division (), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc, fought during the final phases of World War II in the Western Front. The division was formed around a core of units that had raided Italian Libya at the end of 1940 and Tripoli in 1943 under Leclerc, but was most known for its role in the fight at Kufra in 1941; later renamed the 2nd Light Division, in August 1943, it was organized under the US light armored division organization.
The division's 14,454 personnel included men from the 2nd Light Division, escapees from metropolitan France, about 3,600 Moroccans and Algerians and about 350 Spanish Republicans.〔Olivier Forcade, ''Du capitaine de Hauteclocque au Général Leclerc'', Vingtième Siècle, Revue d'histoire, Année 1998, Volume 58, Numéro 58, pp. 144–146〕〔"Aspect méconnu de la composition de la 2e DB : en avril 1944, celle-ci comporte sur un effectif total de 14 490, une proportion de 25 % de soldats nord-africains : 3 600", Christine Levisse-Touzé, ''Du capitaine de Hautecloque au général Leclerc?'', Editions Complexe, 2000, p.243〕 Other sources give about 2,000, official records of the 2e DB show fewer than 300 Spaniards as they hid their nationality, fearing retaliation against their families in Spain.〔Pierre Milza, ''Exils et migration: Italiens et Espagnols en France, 1938–1946'', L'Harmattan, 1994, p. 590〕〔http://www.memorial-montormel.org/?id=172〕〔''Annuaire des anciens combattants de la 2e DB'', Imprimerie de Arrault, 1949〕
The division embarked in April 1944 and shipped to various ports in Britain. On 29 July 1944, bound for France, the division embarked at Southampton. During combat in 1944, the division liberated Paris, defeated a Panzer brigade during the armored clashes in Lorraine, forced the Saverne Gap and liberated Strasbourg. After taking part in the Battle of the Colmar Pocket, the division was moved west and assaulted the German-held Atlantic port of Royan, before recrossing France in April 1945 and participating in the final fighting in southern Germany, even going first into Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" (Americans captured the town below). Deactivated after the war, the 2nd Division was again activated in the 1970s and served through 1999.
==World War II operations==
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