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13 kwi 2014 · Various shots of the Free French army in Libya. They display captured Nazi medals and flags. Air crews and pilots are taken to their planes in trucks, load bombs and take off. Several shots...
In central, eastern and northern Africa, in the sky of England, on the Atlantic, many French from France and from the colonies rallied to General de Gaulle's...
21 lip 2015 · (12 Jun 1941) General Wavell has appointed Sir Henry Wilson to command the Allied advance into Syria. Free French Forces were soon reported to have penetrate...
It joined the Allied nations in fighting Axis forces with the Free French Forces (Forces françaises libres), supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied France, known as the French Forces of the Interior, and gained strategic footholds in several French colonies in Africa.
The Royal Navy’s attack on the French naval force at Mers-el-Kebir in northwest Algeria on July 3, 1940, ostensibly to prevent it falling into German hands, resulted in the deaths of 1,300 French sailors and engendered much bitterness against Winston Churchill—and anyone touting support from Britain.
The Free French Forces (French: Forces françaises libres) were individuals or military units who joined "Free France" (la France libre), the resistance organisation founded by Charles de Gaulle in 1940 in London to continue the struggle against the Axis powers.
The courageous Free French defense of the remote desert fortress of Bir Hacheim in May 1942 helped turn the tide of the war in North Africa.
