Légionnaires onboard the ship Ville d'Alger on their way to Norway, 1940. They are listening to music but keep a Hotchkiss mdle1914 ready to be used in case they have to defend the boat against planes. They have perceived special coats for fighting in arctic conditions. 

The Légion en route to Norway

North Africa, march 1943. Capitaine Labataille from the colonial infantry. He is presenting his troops to the visiting général Giraud on a horse, with riding gloves and stick, and his captured luger. 

Elegant captain in Africa

Probably march 1945, Alsace. Soldiers belonging to the 1st french army symbollicaly get their flag wet in the waters of the Rhine. 
They are about to begin their offensive towards Stuttgart.  