Le CPA 10, commando parachutiste de l'air n° 10, compte dans ses rangs des chiens capables de sauter à plus de 9000 mètres d'altitude.
Entre l'homme et l'animal, une complicité qui fait leur force. 🇫🇷
New Trailer just dropped for 11th edition. Alongside many things it inculded an animated depiction of the Emperor of Mankind. This may in fact be the first canonical, non fanart depiction of him we got since the old Artwork all these years ago. Huge!
On this day in 1942, 3,700 Free French soldiers were holding a fort made of sand against the Italian Ariete Division and the German Afrika Korps.
They had been told to hold for five days.
They held for sixteen.
The fortress was Bir Hacheim, a crossroads in the Libyan desert with one old Ottoman cistern, no natural defenses, and no way out. The commander was a 43 year old general named Marie-Pierre Koenig, who in June 1940 had refused to lay down his arms when France surrendered and had escaped to England to join Charles de Gaulle.
Half his men were French Foreign Legionnaires. The rest were Pacific islanders from Tahiti and New Caledonia, Senegalese tirailleurs, Syrians, Lebanese, Spanish Republicans who had lost one war and were ready to fight another, and Jewish refugees from across Nazi Europe who had walked, sailed and smuggled themselves out to fight again.
Among them was one woman. Susan Travers, an English ambulance driver, the only female ever officially enrolled in the French Foreign Legion. She was also the general's lover.
For sixteen days they were dive-bombed by Stukas, shelled by 88s, attacked by tanks, choked by sandstorms, and slowly starved of water. The Italians tried first and were thrown back with 32 tanks destroyed in a single morning. Then the Germans came. Rommel himself eventually drove out to the perimeter under a white flag to demand surrender in person.
Koenig refused.
When Hitler heard that Free French troops were holding out at Bir Hacheim, he personally signed an order that any captured were to be shot as terrorists, not treated as prisoners of war. The order was passed down the German chain of command to Rommel.
Rommel read it. Then quietly threw it away. The Free French were soldiers and would be treated as soldiers.
On the night of June 10, Koenig and 2,400 of his men broke out through the German lines in a single column. Susan Travers drove the lead vehicle straight through enemy machine gun fire with the general in the passenger seat. Her car was found the next day with 11 bullet holes in it. She was unharmed.
When the news reached London, de Gaulle wept openly.
The next day he stood in front of a microphone and told the world:
"When at Bir Hacheim a ray of her reborn glory came to caress the bloody brow of her soldiers, the world recognized France."
Je crois que c'est la scène qui me touche le plus à chaque fois que je la vois.. ED qui utilise son énergie vital comme une pierre pour survivre, on ressent vraiment toute sa douleur ainsi que toute la fragilité de la vie..
L'ost et les cris de Romi Park c'est très fort !
🇫🇷🎖️🪖 FLASH | « Sans eux, on ne serait pas libres aujourd’hui. » À seulement 19 ans, Léo Rivière consacre son temps à faire vivre la mémoire des vétérans français oubliés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Étudiant en Histoire à Caen, il réalise seul une série documentaire consacrée aux soldats français ayant combattu en Normandie, en Italie, en Provence ou encore durant la campagne de France de 1940.
« On parle toujours des Américains ou des Britanniques, mais rarement des Français, alors qu’il y a eu plus de 400 000 hommes engagés. Ils ont fait preuve d’un courage immense », explique-t-il à Cerfia.
Le jeune homme a également lancé un APPEL AUX DONS afin de permettre à certains des derniers vétérans français de revenir en Normandie le 6 juin prochain pour rendre hommage à ces combattants.
🇫🇷 Le Chœur de l'Armée française entonne le Chant des partisans, l’hymne de la Résistance française durant l'occupation par l'Allemagne nazie, lors des commémorations du 8-Mai, en présence d'Emmanuel Macron.
Voilà ce dont je vous parlez.. Le discours de heinekel et Alphonse qui renonce a ses principes pour le bien de tous, c'est tellement l'un des plus grands moments du personnage et de toute la série, sa détermination fous des frissons, c'est le plus beau perso du manga !