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Fighting French

American  

noun

  1. Free French.


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The misgivings were not allayed when General Eisenhower tartly announced that the Fighting French announcement of the request and the delay surprised him.

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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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He had carefully studied a memorandum from the Fighting French.

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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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Fighting French headquarters announced this week that General Dwight Eisenhower had asked De Gaulle to "delay his journey."

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