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Fighting French

American  

noun

  1. Free French.


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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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All over town Fighting French signs were appearing, scrawled by invisible hands at night.

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While going or coming he talked with General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, and with wise old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.

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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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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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