French World War II soldier’s colorful, ... The exhibit will run through Oct. 20 and the Museum says it will be “further explored through a robust schedule of free public programming and ...

More than 400,000 Africans in the Free French Forces took part in the Allies' landings in the south of France in August 1944, ... paid his respects to Senegalese WW2 soldiers in France.

Hubert Germain, who died Oct. 12 at age 101, was the last survivor of 1,038 French soldiers and resistance fighters decorated as “Companions of the Liberation” by their wartime leader (and ...

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 on Thursday remembers the 1944 Allied landings in Provence, an event overshadowed by the Normandy landings two months earlier, but still key to the World War II endgame in ...

The sacrifice of the soldiers who fought in 1940 was forgotten." Lormier is one of a number of historians who are reinterpreting the events of May-June 1940, using French and German military archives.