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World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.

Historical image related to World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. from November 24, 1941

Lend-Lease

WWII program to provide U.S. allies with free armaments

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations of the Second World War…
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French Liberation Army

Reunified French Armed Forces during WWII

The French Liberation Army was the reunified French Army that arose from the merger of the giraudist Armée d'Afrique with the prior Gaullist Free French Forces during World War II. The military force of Free France, it participated in the Italian and Tunisian campaigns before…
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