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Free French

In World War II, movement formed by Gen Charles de Gaulle in the UK in June 1940, consisting of French soldiers who continued to fight against the Axis after the Franco-German armistice. They took the name Fighting France in 1942 and served in many campaigns, among them Gen Leclerc's advance from Chad to Tripolitania in 1942, the Syrian campaigns of 1941, the campaigns in the Western Desert, the Italian campaign, the liberation of France, and the invasion of Germany. Their emblem was the Cross of Lorraine, a cross with two bars.



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