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101-year-old WWII veteran earns highest French military honor(WNEM) - A World War II veteran received a well-deserved honor ... Yannick Tagand, the French consul general that covers the Midwest traveled from Chicago to Ingersoll Township Hall to give ...
A British veteran has been awarded France's highest honour for his service during World War Two. Dennis Smith, 98, from ...
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AllAfrica on MSNVisual Retelling of Thiaroye Massacre Sheds New Light On French Colonial AtrocityFrench photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of Dakar. Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers ...
Three years of war and hundreds of thousands of dead on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides have pushed the French army into rethinking its military strategy. The high-intensity conflict ...
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...
France set up a joint commission with Senegal last month to organize the withdrawal, and the French army recently announced it had dismissed 162 Senegalese who worked on military bases in Dakar.
Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.
Using French military archives, he also reconstructed the layout of the Thiaroye transit camp, which served as a temporary home to demobilised soldiers following their service. By overlaying ...
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