During the Battle of France, its commander general Jean Bouffet was killed and after the French capitulation, the Corps was dissolved on 26 May 1940.
After Operation Torch, the French troops in North Africa joined the allies, and a new 2nd Army Corps was created in Algeria on 16 August 1943.
After having taken over the Vosges and Alsace, the 2nd Army Corps victoriously defended Strasbourg against the German counter-attack in January 1945.
The 10th Infantry Division spent its last active months in the French occupation zone in Germany under the command of the 2nd Army Corps.
[10] With the end of the Cold War, the French Army underwent significant reorganization and no longer has any numbered corps headquarters.