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JR -> (8/1/2000 3:02:00 PM)
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Originally posted by troopie:
French fought French in Syria as well. Most notably a battle, forgot the name, where two Foreign Legion units fought each other. After the battle, which the Free French won, those Legionnaires who wished to were returned to France, the rest were taken in to the Free French Foreign Legion, where they served with honour.
troopie
Partly because of all this, the french were not too keen on rejoining the Allied, and some french considered De Gaulle a treaitor.
During the opening stages of Torch the british partisipation was toned down, and the american part emphasised. All senior british officers were kept in the background, and it were american officers who were negotiating with the Vichy forces.
I have even seen pictures of british planes marked with american markings for Torch.
All this was done in order to avoid raising bad feelings among the french, and make it less likly that the Vichy forces in North Africa should choose to put up a prolonged fight.
JR
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