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The 3rd Light Mechanized Division (French: 3e Division Légère Mécanique, 3e DLM) was a French Army division active during World War II.

History

Second World War

Battle Of France

During the Battle of France in May 1940 the division contained the following units:^[1]

5th Light Mechanized Armoured Brigade^[1]
- 1st Cuirassier Armoured Regiment
- 2nd Cuirassier Armoured Regiment
6th Light Mechanized Infantry Brigade^[1]
- 11th Dragoon Mechanized Infantry Regiment
- 12th Cuirassier Reconnaissance Cavalry Regiment
76th Mechanized Artillery Regiment

Divisions of the French Army

Active
1st 3rd

Cold War (1945–1991)

Infantry	2th Motorized 4th Motorized 9th 9th Marine 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 19th 20th 21st 27th Alpine 29th 109th 152nd
Armored	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 10th
Light Armored	6th 12th 14th
Airborne	4th Airmobile 10th 11th Light Intervention 24th 25th
Other	Division Daguet

World War II (1939–1945) (list)

1939–1940

Tank

Armoured	1 2 3 4

Light Mechanized	1 2 3 4 7

Cavalry

1
2
3
4
5
6

Colonial

Colonial	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Moroccan	1 2 3

North African	1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Indochina	Cochinchina and Cambodia Tonkin

Infantry

1st – 9th	1st Motorized 2 3rd Motorized 4 5th Motorized 6 7 8 9th Motorized

10th – 19th	10 11 12th Motorized 13 14 15th Motorized 16 17 18 19

20th – 29th

20
21
22
23
24
25th Motorized
26

Mountain	27 28 29

30th – 39th

Mountain	30 31

32
35
36

40th – 49th	40 41 42 43 44 45 47

50th – 59th	51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59

60th – 69th

60
61
62
63
67
68

Mountain	64 65 66

70th – 89th

70
71

African	81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

100th – 199th

Fortress	101 102 103 104 105

African	180 181 182 183

191
192

Light Division of Infantry

1st Motorized

3

17

32

43

59

235th – 241st	235 236 237 238 239 240 241

Burtaire
1st North African

Colonial	2 8

Chasseurs	1 2

March

Besse
Chastanet
Poisot
Regard
Senselme

Polish

1
2

Vichy France

Metropolitan	7 9 12 13 14 15 16 17
Africa and Asia	Algiers Territorial Casablanca Cochinchina and Cambodia Constantine Territorial Fez Marrakech Meknes Oran Territorial Tunisian Forces Command Tonkin
Related	33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French)

Free France/
Army of Liberation

Infantry	1st Alpine 1st Free French Division 1st Infantry 1st Far East Colonial 2nd Moroccan 3rd Algerian 3rd Colonial 4th Moroccan Mountain 9th Colonial 10th Infantry 14th Infantry 19th Infantry 23rd Infantry 25th Infantry 27th Alpine
Never in combat	1st Algerian 1st Colonial 1st Moroccan 2nd Algerian 2nd Colonial 2nd Far East Colonial 3rd Moroccan 6th Moroccan Mountain 7th Algerian 8th Algerian 10th Colonial 36th Infantry 3rd Armored
Armour	1st Armored 2nd Armored 5th Armored
Temporary	Constantine March Algerian March Oran March Morocco March Southeast Algerian Front

World War I (1914–1918) (list)