Word: giraud
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...Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis, for once having to worry about too little and too late, poured additional planes into the French Protectorate from bases in Sardinia and Sicily. German paratroops captured and held the airfield after French scattered garrisons under the leadership of the ubiquitous General Henri Giraud fired on the Nazis and Italians. Drawing on "flying Panzer divisions," supposedly held for an invasion of Britain, Hitler air-ferried twelve-and 15-ton tanks to protect the approaches to Bizerte harbor. Italian marines were reported landed by sea. Axis subs swarmed like sharks off the coasts...
...announcement broadcast by the Algiers radio, he took over the civil administration of the colonies in the name of Marshal Pétain-and with the approval of the U.S. authorities. He set up his own military command under the stanch old soldier and escapist General Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under this former collaborator with Germany-in the rear of the Allied armies...
Over the Algiers radio came the most surprising and inspiring French voice of all. It was that of big, spirited General Henri Honore Giraud, idol of France, Germany's No. 1 war prisoner and escapist (TIME, May 11). Cried...
...Great Escapist. When the story of General Giraud's escape from Konig-stein prison was told last spring it was so fabulously like an Alfred Hitchcock cinema that most observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British...
...healthy voice that sounded over the Algiers radio last week. Commander in Chief of Allied forces in North Africa Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower announced that General Giraud had arrived in Algeria "to organize a French North African Army and again take up arms side by side with forces of the United Nations for the defeat of Germany and Italy." At the time of Giraud's escape, General de Gaulle declared that he would be glad at any time to serve under his senior...