2 - The Battalion Korea

On 25 August 1950, the French army was already heavily committed in Indochina, the French government decided in Korea sending a battalion of volunteers, whose role was to say the French presence alongside other nations to resist to pressure North Korea and China supported by the USSR.

On 29 November 1950, the battalion landed at Pusan. He will be assigned throughout the country on the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Division of the 8th U.S. Army will include a company of Korean soldiers. After a month of training in temperatures up to minus 40 °, it was committed on 25 December in this war movements and positions that will last until July 1953.

It led to some very hard fighting in melee, for extreme temperatures of minus 20 degrees, using all means to flamethrowers to seize the enemy positions. If aviation forces communist n'intervint rarely on the ground, their artillery was so powerful and active until the end of fighting.

On 23 October 1953, the battalion left Korea to Indochina. It has largely fulfilled its mission to represent France in the struggle for the defense of Liberty.

Became regiment with two battalions, will serve in Indochina in 1953-1954, forming the backbone of Groupement Mobile No. 100 battalion of the 43rd running of RIC, the RAC II/10èmè le3/5ème RCLe and 24 June 1954 - Dien Bien Phu fell on May 7 - GM 100 AN KHE left by RC 19, corniche road along a very dense vegetation. The operation was delayed by successive setbacks and the opponent largely underestimated, and the GM 100 is doomed because the road is held by an enemy, well informed, who will mount a massive ambush. The power of Viets is considerable; onslaught after onslaught, they are destroying the units. In this ambush, the GM 100 has lost nearly a thousand men, killed, wounded, missing. The I / Korea was still committed three days before the cease-fire and lost three-quarters of its workforce.

In 1955 the battalion arrived in Algeria when it was turned into a two-regiment EMT ; It was officially renamed the 156th IR but in practice remain designated as the Regiment of Korea until its dissolution in 1962

The Battalion in Korea 4 citations received to the order of the Army, U.S. presidential citations 3 and 2 Korean presidential citations, in the Indochina I / Korea received 1 quote to the order of the Army / II / Korea 1 citation the order of the Army Corps, the Regiment returned to Battalion was then admitted to wearing a forage in the colors of the Military Medal