Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te angitu o te Operation Dragoon i te tonga o Parani, i whakahiatohia te tari matua o te 1st Army Corps i Aix, Parani i te Mahuru 1, 1944, ki te whakahau i nga hoia hei roopu o raro o te French Army Army. Ko te 1st Army Corps i raro i te whakahau a Lieutenant General Émile Béthouart, he toa o te pakanga 1940 i Norway me tetahi rangatira i kaha ki te awhina i te
Ko nga whakaekenga a Allied i French North Africa i te marama o Noema 1942. Mo te toenga o te pakanga i Uropi, he maha nga wehenga French ka noho ki raro i te 1st Army Corps, engari ko nga wehenga i whakapau i te wa ki te roopu ko te 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division (2e DIM), te 9th Colonial Infantry Division (9e DIC), te 4th Moroccan Mountain Division (4e DMM), me te 1st Armoured Division (1re DB).