11 November 1939: #Armistice Day ceremony at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, presided by General Huntziger, 2e Armée commander, in the presence of Col. Fuller, American military attaché. Featured a parade of FCM 36 light tanks of the 7e BCC.

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November 1943, Italian detainees (the POW label isn't fully appropriate following the Armistice of Cassibile in September) are escorted by Moroccan tirailleurs in the port of Casablanca.

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Another detail: Present at the site was Gen. Charles Huntziger, commander of the 2e Armée. Militarily incompetent, Huntziger, a quasi-fascist Catholic reactionary and convinced antisemite, was nevertheless elevated to the post of War Minister under the Vichy regime. He died in a plane crash in 1941.

Have this going in my family I largely just avoid the exhaustion at this point

It is possible, though not certain, that this airman was aboard this Dornier Do 17, downed in the 2nd Army sector by an RAF Hurricane in November 1939.

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Gendarmes interrogate a downed Luftwaffe airman in the 2nd Army sector, November 1939. The German aviator does not look particularly eager to be photographed.

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Here's a few more, possibly from the same set!

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Prior to France's untimely exit from the war a large portion of that country's gold reserves were also transferred to Halifax.

A few snapshots of the unloading of the French gold from the cruiser Marseillaise and battleship Lorraine on December 1st, 1939, and a French sailor with the Halifax Mail:

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Loire 130 flying boat of the Marine Nationale in flight, exact date/location unspecified, 1939-40 period. Loire flying boats were employed by recon squadrons in both metropolitan France and North Africa.

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German prisoners captured by the French 2nd Armored Division (2e DB) in Alsace, November 1944. The M10 Tank Destroyer likely belongs to the Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers-Marins (RBFM).

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