5th_Corps_(France)

5th Army Corps (France)

5th Army Corps (France)

Military unit

For the similarly numbered formation in the Grande Armée, see V Corps (Grande Armée).

The 5th Army Corps was a military unit of the French Army which fought in the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars. It comprised three divisions.[1]

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The last commander was René Altmayer (June 1940).

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Weygand, Maxime, "Weygand Memoires, Part I", pg. 471

References

  • Weygand, Maxime, "Weygand, Memoires, Part I", Paris: Flammarion, 1953


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