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The Free French Forces were a free army during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. It started in 1940. It ended in 1944 because of the invasion of Normandy. These forces made a major impact on the German army by destroying railroads and attacking German units.
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La Marseillaise (words and music by Rouget de l'Isle)Band of the Garde Républicaine, directed by François-Julien Brun. Recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.*Columbia DF 3263 CL 8602
Charles de Gaulle was an armoured division commander and a minister in the Reynaud government during the Battle of France.
In Occupied France during the war, reproductions of the 18 June appeal were distributed through underground means as pamphlets and plastered on walls as posters by supporters of the Résistance. This could be a dangerous activity.
4 Carlton gardens, London. During WWII the building served as provisional headquarters of the Free French Resistance movement
Émile Fayolle, pilot of the Free French Air Force, during the Battle of Britain
General de Gaulle and King George VI inspecting the Free French forces in England, 24 August 1940
Charles de Gaulle inspecting sailors on the Free French destroyer Léopard in June 1942
North African 1st Spahi Regiment in Egypt, 1941
French commando troops undergoing training at Achnacarry House in Scotland, 17 July 1943
