501e Régiment de chars de combat

The 501^e Régiment de chars de combat 501^e RCC in French, (501^e R.C.C, or 501st Combat Tank Regiment) is an armoured tank unit of the French Army created on 13 May 1918, and which took part in World War I, World War II the Russian Civil War, the First Indochina War, the Algerian war, Lebanese Civil War and the War on Terror.

The regiment participated to the campaigns of Free France, then the liberation of Europe at the corps of the 2nd Armoured Division 2^e DB of général Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque.

Merged with the 503^e Régiment de chars de combat 503^e RCC to form the 501^e-503^e Régiment de chars de combat 501^e-503^e RCC, the regiment was redesignated as 501^e RCC on 23 June 2009.