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To: kearnyirish2

Oddly, the French Foreign Legion units at Dien Bien Phu had an unusually large ratio of native French.

Many collaborators after WWII were given the option to stand trial, or to join the FFL to earn clemency.


44 posted on 01/28/2012 8:53:57 AM PST by donmeaker (e is trancendental)
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To: donmeaker

The French used a lot of colonial troops as well (they weren’t FL though); they had Moroccans, Algerians, Laotians, etc. in the lot.


48 posted on 01/28/2012 9:57:47 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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