Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pakutanga kweHondo Yenyika II, kubva muna May kusvika muna June 1940, akanga ari mukuru mukuru wechiFrench muduku zvikurusa. Akatungamirira boka rake munguva yeHondo yeFrance, muhondo dzeRethel, Champagne-Ardenne, uye Loire uye kusvikira Armistice yaJune 22, 1940. Munguva yeVichy Regime, akaramba ari muArmistice Army, kutanga munzvimbo dzekutungamira, ndokuzova mukuru wemauto muTunisia. Mushure mokunge mauto eAllied asvika muNorth Africa, musi wa11 November 1942, maGermany akapinda munzvimbo yakasununguka; de Lattre, Mutungamiri we16th Military Division paMontpellier, akaramba mirairo yekuramba kurwisa maGermany uye ndiye chete mukuru mukuru wekuronga kuti mauto ake arwise vapambi. Akasungwa asi akatiza ndokupinda muFrance Yakasununguka yaCharles de Gaulle pakupera kwa1943. Kubva muna 1943 kusvika muna 1945 aiva mumwe wevatungamiriri vakuru veLiberation Army, achitungamirira mauto ayo
yakaburuka kumaodzanyemba kweFrance musi wa15 Nyamavhuvhu 1944, ikarwa kusvika kuRwizi Rhine neDanube. Ndiye chete mukuru mukuru weFrance weHondo Yenyika II kuti atungamirire nhamba huru yemauto eAmerica, apo US XXI Corps yakabatanidzwa neFirst Army yake panguva yehondo yeColmar Pocket. Akanga ariwo mumiriri weFrance muBerlin musi wa 8 Chivabvu 1945, naEisenhower, Zhukov naMontgomery.