Fighting French
Americannoun
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In pledging a liberated France self-government based on the laws of the Third Republic, in his disavowal of the German armistice terms and Vichy's racial legislation, Giraud was in agreement with the Fighting French.
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All over town Fighting French signs were appearing, scrawled by invisible hands at night.
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The Call to Honour, by General Charles de Gaulle, was the testimony of the man who made the Free Fighting French a reality almost singlehandedly after the fall of France.
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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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Tired and rather haggard, General Georges Catroux, Fighting French emissary to the North African government of General Henri Honor� Giraud, arrived in London last week and registered as usual at Claridge's.
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