"Mounted French Cavalry 1940" Topic
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| Wealdmaster | 07 Aug 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
In "Officers and Soldiers of the French Army, 1940", Andre Jouineau shows a machine gunner of the 6th cuirassiers and says this regiment was still mounted. Any other evidence support a claim that French troops were conducting mounted operations in 1940? |
| Daniel S | 07 Aug 2018 3:02 p.m. PST |
Plenty of of mounted troops in the French army in 1940 as half of the combat brigades in the DLC (Division Légère de Cavalerie) were mounted as were a number of independent cavalry brigades. link However based on the sources I have the 6e régiment de cuirassiers was not a mounted unit but rather a recon regiment with Panhard 178 armoured cars in the 1st DLM link Perhaps a typo as the 5e régiment de cuirassiers was a mounted unit in the 2nd DLC. |
| Martin Rapier | 07 Aug 2018 11:29 p.m. PST |
As above, the DLC were cavalry divisions. The Germans also employed their 1st Cavalry Division in France. |
| Wealdmaster | 08 Aug 2018 7:08 a.m. PST |
Interesting, perhaps then some mounted troops are to be painted and they can be in the rear and then move up like dragoons and dismount to fight. |
| Maha Bandula | 08 Aug 2018 7:51 p.m. PST |
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 Legion 4   | 09 Aug 2018 6:16 a.m. PST |
Nice models ! But in many cases the horse cav units at the beginning of WWII were "fighting the last war" in their arms, organization and deployment. |
| Martin Rapier | 09 Aug 2018 11:49 p.m. PST |
Perhaps, but I have masses of WW2 cavalry, particularly Russian and Rumanian, and even a fair amount of German (as each infantry division had a cavalry recce squadron). |
| Legion 4 | 11 Aug 2018 7:37 a.m. PST |
I too have a number of 6mm Horse Cav squadrons in my Sci-fi forces … 
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| lou passejaire | 12 Aug 2018 9:17 a.m. PST |
you must count the "cavalry regiments" as "motorized infantry regiments" riding horses , due to the lack of vehicles … DLC were partly motorized divisions :
with a Cavalry Brigade of 2 horse mounted regiments
and a motorized brigade of an armoured car regiment and a dragons portés regiment
the only French cavalry charge during WW2 was the charges of a Free French Moroccan Spahis unit on Italian troops in Erytrea .
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