Word: phe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed unquestioned. Fair-faced, jolly General Alphonse Pierre Juin, 55, became Commander of Vichy's Moroccan forces. Just a month ago the Nazis saw fit to release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy's Tunisian troops. His name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral Gabriel Adrien Josèphe Paul Auphan, British...