White Unit Liberated Paris in WWII

White Unit Liberated Paris in WWII

When American and British generals demanded that the French unit liberating Paris be entirely white during World War II, they had to import a white French unit from Morocco. Spanish and Portuguese soldiers supplemented the unit, making it entirely white but not entirely French.

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