Word: tricolor
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...liberated Corsica, the French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
...Fighting French emissary to the North African government of General Henri Honoré Giraud, arrived in London last week and registered as usual at Claridge's. Within an hour he had bathed, changed and with a bulging briefcase left in a four-year-old Buick flying the French tricolor to see his leader, General Charles de Gaulle. Behind him lay two weeks of conferences in Algiers; before him, perhaps, a solution at last of the differences which had long divided the French...
...where he has worked closely with British officials. A Hyde Park comic drew laughs last week by purposefully mixing up Free, Fighting and Flirtatious French; but to the British people and Frenchmen imprisoned in their homeland De Gaulle is respected as a gallant fighter who carried high the French tricolor when other Frenchmen faltered, compromised...
...with gunfire from other vessels. They saw some which had slipped their moorings make for the harbor entrance; at least one blew up there on the German mines.* In the glare of explosions and searchlights the Germans saw the French masters, at rigid attention on their bridges, saluting the Tricolor as they went down...
First a lone British destroyer, then heavier fleet units moved into the city's anchorage. The Union Jack was the first Allied flag up over Algiers' docks. (At first the Tricolor continued to fly over Governor Yves Charles Chatel's residence. The warships did not long have the harbor in peace: the afternoon after Algiers' surrender, German Stukas (presumably from Sicily or Sardinia) attacked. Twelve miles offshore Axis, British and U.S. planes mixed in the first of many battles which will be fought before the Allies have unquestioned command of the Mediterranean...