Originally Posted by clems

This may be the french personnel in Germany because i know they were about 1,300,000 (or 1,250,000) french soldiers on V-E day. Indeed many had have very poor training, because they were not only ancient FFI but also volunteers. The equipment was still mainly US except the Adrian helmet and some light weapons and wasn't as good as the equipment of the 1st French Army or the 2nd armored division.

By December 1944, they were already about 1,000,000 soldiers. But again, many weren't able to be send to the front immediately.