Free French
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Most of all, in my case, there was the personal connection stretching across the Atlantic, established during the war when many of my family’s elders fought for Charles de Gaulle’s Free French.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The plane landed somewhere near the Belgian border and the crew were rescued by the Free French Forces.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2023
On the day after Paris’s liberation, Ms. Segouin marched in a victory parade only steps away from Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, down the Champs-Élysées.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
As a lieutenant in the Free French Forces, Mr. Germain went on to fight at El Alamein and in Tunisia before taking part in the Allied invasion of Italy in 1944.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021
They ask a total of one question: about three Free French flags rolled up in a second-floor closet.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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