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Watching the businesslike French Colonials fearlessly scale a steep hill in the face of heavy German machine-gun fire, a U.S. artillery major said: "God! If everybody had the heart to fight the way these Frenchmen...
Among the ruined olive groves and the drab, pathetic rubble of small Italian towns, exultant Frenchmen with glittering eyes were rubbing out the memory of June four years ago. Down the dusty, twisting road from the ancient hill village of Esperia, toward Monticelli and the pockmarked Liri Valley, buzzed a jeep with the shield of a general of France. "Voila le grand Charlie!" sweaty Frenchmen shouted to one another, and froze in proud salute...
...Literally: Corsican scrub, traditional refuge for lawbreakers; now the term for Frenchmen hiding from Occupation demands. Most Maquis haunt the Haute-Savoie, near Switzerland...
...Make immediate contact with the Milice [militia of renegade Frenchmen], at once appointing Milice chiefs to their corresponding grades in the Waffen SS. . . . The Milice will be immediately mobilized. It will be supplied with food and ammunition from [German] Army sources...
...opening game of the season, the Crimson booters outplayed the Tarks, 6 to 4. However, they succumbed to the French sailors in the second tilt of the year, 3 to 2. A return game with the Frenchmen is planned for this Saturday...