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    French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres, or FFL), including a naval arm, the "Free French Naval Forces" (Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL)...
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    French destroyer La Combattante (category Hunt-class destroyers of the Free French Naval Forces)
    La Combattante ("The Combatant") was a destroyer of the Forces navales françaises libres (FNFL). A British-built Hunt-class destroyer, she was offered...
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    Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (category Free French Naval Forces officers)
    and admiral; he became one of the major personalities of the Forces navales françaises libres. He was the chancellor of the Ordre de la Libération. He was...
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    Free French Forces (Forces françaises libres). Free France also supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied France, known as the French Forces of the Interior...
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    Émile Muselier (category Military personnel of the Free French Naval Forces)
    1965) was a French admiral who led the Free French Naval Forces (Forces navales françaises libres, or FNFL) during World War II. He was responsible for...
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    This is a list of the ships of the Free French Naval Forces. Béarn Lorraine (obsolete) Paris (obsolete) Courbet (obsolete) - scuttled during the Battle...
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    The Free French Air Forces (French: Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, FAFL) were the air arm of the Free French Forces in the Second World War, created...
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    French submarine Surcouf (category Submarines of the Free French Naval Forces)
    Surcouf's refit and turned her over to the Free French Naval Forces (Forces Navales Françaises Libres, FNFL) for convoy patrol. The only officer not repatriated...
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    FNFL ensign is flown by the ships which have fought with the Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or by ships named after such ships. Two ships of the FNFL...
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    Navy and formed the nucleus of the Free French Naval Forces (FFNF; in French Forces Navales Françaises Libres: FNFL). France's surrender found her only aircraft...
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  • Yves Rocard (category Military personnel of the Free French Naval Forces)
    Charles de Gaulle who named him Director of Research in the Forces navales françaises libres (the Navy of Free France). He became particularly interested...
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    merging of the Armée d'Afrique with the prior Free French Forces (Forces françaises libres or FFL) during World War II. The military force of Free France...
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    Philippe Kieffer (category Military personnel of the Free French Naval Forces)
    for London on 19 June 1940 and joined the Free French Naval Forces (Forces Navales Françaises Libres) on 1 July 1940, the day they were founded. Speaking...
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    occupation by the Germans a company of the commando Kieffer of the Forces Navales Françaises Libres had continued the French National Holiday parade in the streets...
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    Gaulle founded the Free French Forces, including a naval arm, the Free Naval French Forces (Forces navales françaises libres, FNFL). To distinguish the FNFL...
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  • Françaises Libres, FAFL) Free French Naval Forces (Forces Navales Françaises Libres, FNFL) Free French Naval Air Service (Aéronavale française libre,...
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    French submarine Curie (P67) (category British U-class submarines of the Free French Naval Forces)
    Combat. Paris: Editions G.P. (1945). Chapter 7. Historique des Forces Navales Françaises Libres, Vol 1, 2nd edition. Service historique de la marine (1990)...
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  • Émile Chaline (category Free French Naval Forces officers)
    Melitensi Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog Historique des Forces navales françaises libres (1990) "Emile Jean CHALINE". Parcours de vies dans la Royale...
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    France(République française), Free France(La France Libre), Service: French Navy (Marine Nationale), Free French Naval Forces(Forces Navales Françaises), Rank:...
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    French schooner Belle Poule (category Ships of the Free French Naval Forces)
    of the hull. As a former ship of the Free French Naval Forces (French: Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL), Belle Poule still flies the flag with...
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  • Libre), the provisional government in London who controlled unoccupied and liberated territories, and the forces under its control (Forces françaises...
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  • French Flower-class corvette (category Flower-class corvettes of the Free French Naval Forces)
    Flower class built for, or operated by, the French Navy and Free French Naval Forces in World War II. At the outbreak of the war, four anti-submarine warfare...
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    into the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos of the Forces Navales Françaises Libres. On 6 June 1944 he landed in Normandy at Ouistreham with the...
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  • forces navales françaises libres. Service historique de la Marine, Marine Nationale, p. 463. Aglion, Raoul. De Gaulle et Roosevelt. La France Libre aux...
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  • Louis Kahn (admiral) (category Military personnel of the Free French Naval Forces)
    Algiers, the shipbuilding center of the Free French Naval Forces (French: Forces navales françaises libres). With the Secretary of the Navy (Ministre de la...
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    Battle of Madagascar (category Naval battles and operations of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    British fleet more vulnerable to attack. The possibility of Japanese naval forces using forward bases in Madagascar had to be addressed. The potential...
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    HMCS Sambro. On 15 January 1943 she was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL) as Galantry V.111 and served off the south coast of Newfoundland...
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    Battle of Gabon (category Naval battles of World War II involving France)
    British resolve to lend military aid to Free France. "Histoires de Français Libres – Ordres de Bataille de la 1ère DFL – Gabon". Yannis Kadari, " The epic...
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    French corvette La Bastiaise (category Flower-class corvettes of the Free French Naval Forces)
    2015. The crew members that died are remembered among the Forces Navales Françaises Libres members that died in the war. List of Escorteurs of the French...
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    the specialized naval infantry of the Marine nationale (French Navy). The Fusiliers marins serve primarily as the Navy’s security forces, providing protection...
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