Photos of the Real 13th Demi Brigade of The French Foreign Legion

Photos Of The Real 13th DBLE

* For More Photos of the Real 13th DBLE see the Photos in the Yearbook Section of the Website on the 13th Handbook Webpage.


13th DBLE Pair Victory Parade, May 8, 1945	13th DBLE 3rd Battalion Legionnaire w/ Standard, Libya 1942 (Note The French Leather Gear with British Khaki Drill)	13th DBLE On The Way to Norway, Onboard The SS Providence, March 1940. (Note The Alpine Gear, Complete with Skies)


13th DBLE 1st REI Veteran, March 2, 1940. Sidi Bel Abbes. (Note the M1915 Helmet Insignia on the M1926)	13th DBLE Unit Guidon, Libya 1942	A 13th DBLE LT, North Africa 1942


Lt. Col. Magin-Vereney Presenting a Detachment of the 13th to a British General, Spring 1940	On the way to Norway Spring 1940


On the way to Norway Spring 1940	Catching Up On the on How the War's Going, On the way to Norway, Spring 1941


13th DBLE Machine Gun Squad, April 13, 1941	13th DBLE With Colonial Unit of Koenig's Free French Brigade, Bir Hakeim, 1942	13th DBLE in a 3-Ton Ford, Bir Hakeim, April 1942


13th DBLE Sergeant, Bir Hakeim, April 1942	13th DBLE Private, Bir Hakeim, April 1942	13th DBLE Corporal, Bir Hakiem, April 1942


13th DBLE Officer Being Decorated, Damascus, Summer 1941	13th DBLE Officer On The Phone, Trenches at Bir Hakeim, May-June 1942	13th DBLE De Gaulle Review, London, July 1940 (Note The Alpine Uniform)


13th DBLE Another De Gaulle Review, Palestine, May 1941	13th DBLE And Another De Gaulle Review, Rome, June 28, 1944 (Note The British & American Uniform-Gear Mix)	13th DBLE Yet Another De Gaulle Review, 1945


13th DBLE Ski-Scouts and Motorcyclists Line Up On a Stop Over in Britain On The Way to Norway, 1940	13th DBLE Legionnaires Prepare to Fire a Light Gun After pushing Germans near the Swedish Border, after defeating them at Bjervik and Narvik, Norway 1940	13th DBLE Scouting Column, "Jock Colonnes", 3rd Battalion In Bren Gun Carriers, Bir-Hakeim 1942

13th DBLE After taking Strasbourg and Colmar, Press On Towards Italy via an 8,000 foot pass, April 1945

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Libya, 1942. Bren Gun Carriers of the 13th DBLE	Embarking for Norway, Final Review in Brest, France, 1940


Koenig's driver was Susan Travers, a young Englishwoman later admitted as the only woman to serve in with the Legion, as a legionnaire. At Bir Hakeim she won a Croix de Guerre after driving through a minefield and three concentric rings of enemy machine-gun fire. Her only anxiety: that the car would break down and she would be blamed. Among others, she was also Colonel Amilkhvari's lover.	General Koenig, On top of his American "Woody" after leading the escape from Bir Hakeim.