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That French Foreign Legion Expedition would have made for a hell of a lot better movie than the dopey Tears Of The Sun. I've read several books on the FFL and found that organization fascinating. One interesting note is that during WWII some of the Legion stayed loyal to the Vichy government while other Legionaires fought with the Free French forces. I really would like to see a TRUE movie about the French Foreign Legion.

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One interesting note is that during WWII some of the Legion stayed loyal to the Vichy government while other Legionaires fought with the Free French forces.

That was the Legions 13th Demi-brigade, formed to fight on the side of the Finnish when the Russians invaded in 1939, but by the time the unit was fully mobilized in 1940, the 4-month Finno-Soviet War had ended. But they were a convenient force available to the Allied effort in Norway, at Narvik and Bjervik, and later fought alongside the British Eighth Army's *Desert Rats* in the Western Desert, including actions at Bir Hakim and El Alemain, and against some of those other Foreign Legion units remaining in the service of the Vichy government. Happily, Legionaires were in a position to best reason with other Legionaires, but it's not likely that any unit of the Legion, anywhere, will ever capitulate or surrender on the April 30th anniversary of the 1863 fight of the Legion at Camerone, in Mexico. Now THAT'S a story worth a realistic movie.

I really would like to see a TRUE movie about the French Foreign Legion.

There's of course a different movie for each individual serving in the organization. But it's a rather long movie, of 5 years duration, with no breaks for popcorn. There may be a film about *Operation Leopard* if more a documentary production with surviving participants, though Peter Darman's book on the Kolwezi Drop Surprise Attack could be turned into a screenplay with a minimum of difficulty, I'd expect.

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