Did soldiers of different armies ever fight alongside each other in the world wars?
Like, did Germans fight on the same battlefield as Italians in Africa, or did French and British share trenches in ww1?
Did soldiers of different armies ever fight alongside each other in the world wars?
Caleb Morgan
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Cooper Gonzalez
Yes
Jaxson Smith
Yes, its called alliance
Adam Parker
Quite often.
Parker Miller
I'm not asking if they fought on the same fronts, rather if the soldiers actually fought together.
Wyatt Hall
yeah literally both those things happened
Adrian Richardson
Units don't tend to overlap as a British platoon would have a different doctrine to a French one but no doubt in the fog of war nationals would end up fighting side by side with one another in the heat of combat.
Benjamin Flores
There was a time when Americans and Wehrmacht and some French POWs fought the SS in the dying days of WW2
Juan Hernandez
Everyone and their mother knows this. Stop posting it.
Tyler Lee
Well obviously the fucking OP doesn't does he cunt?
Luis Hall
Aleksandra Samusenko and Joseph Beyrle are a curious example.
Jackson Turner
And yet there is no movie made of it.
Jason Kelly
french and americans fought together at the Battle of Cantigny in 1918
Asher Adams
french flamethrowers and a US soldier
Ayden Watson
American Paratrooper serving in a Soviet tank squadron.
Always interested me, too bad Samusenko was crushed by her own tank.
Jaxson Garcia
Americans, Brits, and other Commonwealth troops would often form up for combined operations in world war 2
Aiden Rogers
US and french aviators in the "Escadrille Américaine" before the unit went fully american with its famous new name "Escadrille Lafayette" when USA took it over after their entry in the war
Ayden Thomas
Lt. Col. Georges Thenault, commander of the Lafayette Escadrille (center, he survived the war) with, from left to right, american pilots James McConnell (KIA), Kiffin Rockwell (KIA), Norman Prince (KIA), Victor Chapman (KIA)
Oliver Murphy
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Jedburghs in front of B-24 just before night at Area T, Harrington Airdrome, England, circa 1944
Brody Johnson
Yes but in general you don't mix smaller units.
Kevin Gomez
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