Fighting French
Americannoun
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All over town Fighting French signs were appearing, scrawled by invisible hands at night.
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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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But the Assembly was now the deciding factor in Fighting French politics; sitting almost continuously, it could and did bring the power of homeland opinion to bear on De Gaulle and the Liberation Committee.
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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 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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