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Unwelcome Lion. Symptomatic was the story of Pierre Clostermann. France's leading fighter pilot in World War II, a national hero and a Deputy in the National Assembly, Clostermann was a social lion when he first moved to Morocco five years ago to establish a structural-steel concern. Urged on by President Auriol himself, Clostermann befriended Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, and advocated a "dialogue" between Moroccans and French. He fought those who engineered Ben Youssef's deposition and replacement with the pitiful French stooge Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. Soon Clostermann was cut out of French...
Before the police arrived, Clostermann got a call from a friendly top French official. "Don't let them in," he warned. "Once they get the layout, they won't miss again." Now Clostermann goes about armed. In nine months French counterterrorists have committed more than 80 murders. In nine months the sympathetic local police have not made a single arrest...
...some of their due in Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood's Sink 'Em All and Battle Submerged by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig. For pure excitement, there was nothing better than the diary kept by a French fighter pilot in the British air force, Pierre Clostermann's The Big Show...
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