French block airlift of British troops to Basra

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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I wasn't thinking the anger of the French people would be directed at
the
UK.

Why ever not, it has been for the last thousand years or so.

I've been watching the CBS Video History of WWII. Last night was
Torch, the invasion of North Africa. The U.S. troops landed first
because the Allies believed that the French would be less likely to
fire on them than the British, because of the "hatred" (Walter
Cronkite's word) they bore for the Brits.

To be sure, the lower the rank, the less this attitude prevailed. And
in the end, when the Allies moved east to Tunisia, French colonial
forces joined them.


To be fair some French colonial forces joined the British
fighting the Germans and Italians long before Torch.

General LeClerc and his Free French Troops never stopped
fighting the Boche and the Vichy regime, having seized
control of Cameroon and Chad he and his men made
an epic journey through Chad and Southern Libya to
join up with the 8th Army in 1941

Keith