I seem to recall reading that there were all of about 600 of the Free French Army in London during the war; kind of dwarfed by the tens of thousands of Brits who crossed the Channel on June 6, 1944, isn’t it?
> kind of dwarfed by the tens of thousands of Brits who crossed the Channel on June 6, 1944, isn’t it?
It certainly is. And for the Britain and Canada it was the second time across the channel, with the disastrous raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942.
At Dieppe the Allies learned many of the lessons necessary for D-Day to be successful, but only after incurring a cost of 3,623 killed, captured or wounded.
No shortage of British and Canadian blood shed on Sarkozy’s country. It’s shameful that he has snubbed our Queen in this manner.