Fighting French
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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From Africa's midst came reports that the Fighting French were preparing a drive up through the desert to get in behind Rommel.
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Reports that a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic.
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The damage was repaired, but the Fighting French thereafter fired so indiscriminately on approaching planes that for many weeks Pan Am pilots landed at another airport.
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The Fighting French movement was born that day.
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Rebuffs to both collaborationists and royalist plotters conceivably would pave the way for rapprochement between Giraud and the Fighting French of General Charles de Gaulle.
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