Army of the Alps

Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix commanded the 24th Infantry Division with seven battalions in two brigades.

Bernard Meyer de Schauensee's brigade consisted of the 10th Chasseurs à Cheval and 18th Dragoon Regiments.

The 5th, 6th, and 7th National Guard Divisions were led by Théodore Chabert, Claude Marie Pannetier, and Jean-Pierre Maransin, respectively.

Paris was liberated on by 25 August and General DeGaulle was reforming the French Military for the invasion of Germany.

De Gaulle was very keen on France playing a major role in the war; as a result General Paul-André Doyen was recalled to service on 1 Feb 1945.

His army advanced attacking border fortification and taking back all the French territories across the Alps.

In April 1945 the French marched into the Aosta Valley with the purpose of annexing it, but their advance was stopped by coordinated fascist and partisan Italian units and later on they were forced to withdraw under American threats.