Among the 160,000 Allied troops who landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day there was a small contingent of Free French commandos. Huw Williams went to one anniversary service. The words have lost ...
Just as he has for his previous nominations, Trump announced Johnson’s in a post on Truth Social. “I am pleased to nominate Ronald (Ron) Johnson to serve as the United States Ambassador to ...
Dr Bobby Luke Campbell, a senior fashion lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, says berets were first associated with freedom during the French Revolution at the end of the 17th century. The ...
General Charles de Gaulle was a member of the French cabinet during the Battle of France in 1940. As French defence forces were increasingly overwhelmed, de Gaulle found himself part of a group of ...
Ma France will help you improve or brush up your basic French with the help of Stéphane Cornicard and 24 interactive video units. The language you'll learn is spoken and up-to-date. It will help ...
Thus goes the opening verse to “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” sung by the late U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, a song which spent five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1966 ...
“I’m also delighted to have earned my Green Beret twice and know that the real work starts now as a Young Royal Marines Officer in a Commando unit. There are exciting times ahead of me and I look ...