Sixty years ago – on March 19, 1962 – the Algerian War ended. One of the decolonization movements that affected the Western empires after World War II, the Algerian War took place between 1954 and 1962 in Algeria, the then French department situated in North Africa. The war was fought between the French armed forces and the National Liberation Army (ALN), the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN). The French Foreign Legion, firmly established in Algeria since 1831, took an important part in the conflict, as the main core of the French intervention forces. Officially, the Legion lost 65 officers, 278 NCOs, and 1,633 legionnaires in action. See over 30 iconic pictures to commemorate the war and those who fought in it on the Legion side.
—
Related posts:
PHOTOS: 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Camerone in Aubagne in 1963
PHOTOS: 1er RE Adjudants around 1900
PHOTOS: 6e REI in Tunisia around 1950
PHOTOS: 2e CMRLE in Indochina in 1953