Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spearheaded by French colonials, Allied forces landed on the historic island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy, methodically cleaned up this small (19 by 6½ miles) German outpost on their flank. By nightfall of the first day, the Tricolor floated over the villa that Napoleon left for the Hundred Days and Waterloo. This week isolated pockets of Nazi resistance were being mopped up in the hills...
Along the roads of the Manche and Calvados, beside the hawthorne hedges, the farmers of Normandy stand with their families waving at every passing vehicle that throws dust into their faces. In the towns the Tricolor waves from nearly every building, the statues are decorated with American and British flags, and the townspeople take wine and cider to the soldiers who stop their trucks and jeeps in the streets. Seeing these things, you could be carried away by sentiment and say that the oppressed French are welcoming their liberators with tears of joy. But that would not be the whole...
Good Start. Bayeux was hardly touched by the invasion; the Germans got out too fast. In this pleasant tourist town, life is much as it always was, except for the gala display of the Tricolor. But in Bayeux I heard a story that probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this...
Across the choppy Channel plowed the French destroyer Combattante, with the Tricolor whipping smartly from her taffrail. From the bridge General Charles de Gaulle looked toward the shore of invaded Normandy. For him this was a solemn hour. He was coming back to la patrie. He had last trod its earth four years ago, when he fled from defeat to exile with the clarion call to his countrymen: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...
Most Frenchmen went about their business pretty much as usual. But organized partisans stirred and struck. Many towns and villages of central and southern France flew the Tricolor. The core of unrest lay in the region around Vichy; there, by Nazi decree, all civilian motor and bicycle traffic came to a halt...