The 55th Infantry Division was a French Army formation during World War II. The French Army (French: Armée de Terre) is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

During the Battle of France in May 1940 the division contained the following units: Combatants France United Kingdom Canada Czechoslovakia Poland Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Germany Italy Commanders Maurice Gamelin, Maxime Weygand (French) Lord Gort (British Expeditionary Force) H.G. Winkelman (Dutch) Gerd von Rundstedt (Army Group A) Fedor von Bock (Army Group B) Wilhelm von Leeb (Army Group C) H.R.H. Umberto di...

• 213 Infantry Regiment,
• 295 Infantry Regiment,
• 331 Infantry Regiment,
• 11 Machine Gun Battalion,
• 64 Reconnaissance Battalion,
• 45 Artillery Regiment

It was a Series B Reserve division containing older reservists. Symbol of the Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division in NATO code A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of around ten to twenty thousand soldiers. ... A member of the United States Military that spends one weekend a month and two weeks annually training to protect and defend the United States. ...