French foreign legion in WW2

[sunspear]

Did the foreign legion wear the blue overcoats at all during the second WW? I know they served in Africa and Italy but I was curious if that was mainly a turn of the century uniform.

[Captain Blood]

Not that I've ever seen in photographs. Both the Free French and Vichy French in Syria and thereabouts mainly appear to wear khaki / sand coloured uniforms.
I think the dark blue coat of Beau Geste fame was more of a colonial era uniform, pre WW1.

[Will Bailie]

Free French uniforms during WWII were quite varied - standardization was always a challenge as the source of the uniforms was a mix of whatever remnants of French issue they could retain, mixed with the supply they received from their allies (much of the campaign in North Africa they were supplied with British uniforms, then transitioned to US-supplied uniforms). 

As for the Foreign Legion, the blue coats were pre-WWI.  During the Great War, when the main French army changed to horizon bleu (approx. 1915), the Armee d'Afrique (including the Legion) got khaki uniforms, and that was the main issue right through to the beginning of WWII.  According to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion , some remaining pre-war blue coats were issued in 1919 but it's likely that those stocks would be long gone by the start of WWII.

[sunspear]

Ok, thanks for the detailed info. It really helps