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I wonder; just how many French went ashore at Normandy on D-Day ?
85 posted on 05/28/2009 10:48:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Don’t know exactly.. but those who did were the cream of the French crop. de Gaulle was leading from the back I understand..until the Americans let him take Paris and his 1st Armoured Division parade down the Paris main drag with him marching at their head like a 7ft tosser.

If ever a man was a drag on the Allied war effort it was de Gaulle!! As was proved later he had no love for the USA or the UK.


111 posted on 05/28/2009 11:49:11 AM PDT by Brit (yOU REALLY THINK T)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

French troops fought bravely on D-Day.

French Commandos stormed ashore at Ouistreham and battered the Germans there(immortalised in The Longest Day). French Naval ships also supported the landings.


120 posted on 05/28/2009 1:10:47 PM PDT by the scotsman
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