Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan nasarar saukar Operation Dragoon a kudancin Faransa, an tattara hedkwatar Sojojin Sojoji na 1 a Aix, Faransa a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1944, don jagorantar sojoji a matsayin rundunar sojojin Faransa ta Farko. Rundunar Sojoji ta 1 a yanzu tana karkashin jagorancin Lieutenant General Émile Béthouart, wani tsohon soja na yakin 1940 a Norway da kuma jami'in da ya taimaka sosai ga 'yan uwan da suka fito daga Faransa a Arewacin Afrika
a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 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).