Discover the Senegalese Tirailleurs, African skirmishers who served in the French army during World War II. Recruited from across West Africa, they carried the hopes of nations and earned their ...

AFRICA AND FRANCE Britain was never invaded by the Germans. But France was occupied in 1942. There was a Free French government in exile led by Charles De Gaulle. African colonies had to choose ...

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.