[3] After the liberation of the Combe de Savoie and the Grésivaudan, Colonel Jean Vallette d'Osia became the commander of the 1st Alpine Division of the French Forces of the Interior (1ere Division alpine FFI) in September 1944, which unified the mountain units created in the French Resistance in the northern Alps.

Charles de Gaulle reformed the 27th Alpine Infantry Division on 17 November 1944 under the command of General Eugène Molle [it].

Its 159th Infantry Regiment was sent to defend Strasbourg in the same month and did not return to the Alps until March.

While the 27th was reorganized, the Alpine valleys were held by the 4th Moroccan Mountain Division (4e DMM), which rejoined the 1st Army on 17 November.

Later, the "Alpins" of the 27th mountain infantry brigade intervened in Lebanon, Chad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ivory Coast and Afghanistan.