Fourteen hundred dead Nazis is hardly 'thin gruel', Milburn.
This conversation has come to a close. You clearly have some kind of baggage about the French that makes you unable to give credit where credit is due. My parting suggestion to you is to keep in mind that, by your own admission, your family bolted, and were sitting safe and snug in the US, while the Maquis were battling the Nazis. Any judgement you offer on French military valour should be preceded with an acknowledgement that your family sat the Big One out.