Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan nasarar Operation Dragoon saukowa a kudancin Faransa, an tattara hedkwatar rundunar sojojin ta 1 a Aix, Faransa a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1944, don jagorantar sojoji a matsayin rundunar sojojin Faransa ta farko. Rundunar Sojoji ta 1 ta kasance a karkashin jagorancin Lieutenant General Émile Béthouart, wani tsohon soja na yakin 1940 a Norway da kuma jami'in da ya taimaka wa sojojin.
Allied saukowa a Faransa Arewacin Afirka a watan Nuwamba 1942. Ga sauran yakin a Turai, yawancin rukunin Faransa za su kasance a ƙarƙashin rundunar sojojin 1st, amma rukunin da suka ciyar da mafi yawan lokaci tare da rundunar sune 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division (2e DIM), 9th Colonial Infantry Division (9e DIC), 4th Moroccan Mountain Division (4e DMM), da kuma 1st Armored Division (1re DB).