World War 2; British WW2 heroes who helped free France from Nazi occupation receive nation's highest military honour A total of 14 veterans, most of whom are in their 90s, ...

France Makes Wartime Vichy ... shines new light on a painful period in French history — when the Vichy government collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. ... in the free zone, but the ...

PARIS (AP) — Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the ...

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who led Free France against Nazi Germany during the war and was elected president in 1958, was against the project, arguing that France would do better to invest in armor ...

This week, President Biden and other world leaders will gather in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, that moment when the U.S. and its allies began to free France and ...

Friday marks 81 years since the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France. The pivotal mission helped free western Europe from Nazi control. This week, World War II veterans are back in Normandy. On those ...

To commemorate African soldiers who fought to free France during World War II, the French ministry of defense has prepared a report on 100 Africans cited for outstanding service during the war.

France's armed forces ministry has provided local authorities with a guide to 100 Africans who fought for France in World War Two, so that streets and squares may be named after them. France's ...

World War 2. News. British WW2 heroes who helped free France from Nazi occupation receive nation's highest military honour. A total of 14 veterans, most of whom are in their 90s, ...