In late August and early September 2025, heavy mortars from the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) conducted three weeks of intensive training at the CEITO military range at Camp Larzac, the regiment’s home base.
PHOTOS: Foreign Legion Saharan Battery from 1939 to 1942 – II. Part
Another part in our series on interesting photographs. This article continues our series dedicated to the exceptionally rare photographs of the 1st Foreign Legion Saharan Motorized Battery (1re BSPL), taken by Dr. Otto Bruck (alias Legionnaire Marcel Berger).
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PHOTOS: Foreign Legion Saharan Battery from 1939 to 1942
The latest part in our series on interesting photographs presents an exceptionally rare collection depicting members of the first officially established Saharan unit of the French Foreign Legion, spanning from mid-1939 to the weeks following the Allied landings in North Africa in late 1942. These images include the only publicly known photographs of a Foreign Legion Saharan unit taken before the Second World War.
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13e DBLE: 2024 Heavy Mortar Platoon
In early 2024, a 120 mm heavy mortar platoon was formed within the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE). In November 2024, the platoon took part in a military exercise.
80 years ago: Foreign Legion’s last artillery batteries were disbanded
With the conflict in Ukraine, a long-neglected component of Western armies, artillery, has once again stepped to the fore. It might come as a surprise to many Foreign Legion enthusiasts that a 1920 law allowed the Foreign Legion to establish, along with a cavalry regiment, also a separate artillery regiment. Equally surprising might be the fact that, in 1941, the legionnaires probably served in as many as 11 artillery batteries at the same time. The last of these units were disbanded 80 years ago, in 1944.
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