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 paakaburuka muNorth Africa, musi wa11 Mbudzi 1942, maGerman akapinda munzvimbo yakasununguka; de Lattre, Mutungamiriri we16th Military Division kuMontpellier, akaramba mirairo yekuramba kurwisa maGerman uye ndiye chete mukuru wechiuto akarayira mauto ake kuti arwise vapambi. Akasungwa asi akatiza ndokupinda muFrance Yakasununguka yaCharles de Gaulle pakupera kwa1943. Kubva muna 1943 kusvika muna 1945 aiva mumwe wevatungamiri vakuru veLiberation Army, achitungamirira mauto akaenda kumaodzanyemba kweFrance musi wa15 Nyamavhuvhu 1944, akabva arwa 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.