GREAT FRENCH ARMY
America Providing Armour And Equipment ELEVEN DIVISIONS PROMISED - Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, May 9 Algiers radio announced thatGeneral Giraud took the salute at a military parade in Algiers during 'celebrations of the Tunisian victory and Joan of Arc Day. He also reviewed the war material recently supplied to French units, including heavy and light tanks, armouredcars, lorries, guns and automatic arms. "The French Army of Liberation" filed past to marches played by the Foreign Legion and Senegalese bands. The American Associated Press correspondent at Casablanca says the United States is providing tanks, guns and equipment, and is planning to build a great French army in North Africa. When this rearmament is completed, the French army of at least 11 divisions will be equipped with the latest implements of war and trained in American combat methods. ' Two armoured and three infantry divisions are already armed in North Africa, in addition to tank, anti-air-craft and reconnaissance battalions, a parachute regiment and fighter and dive-bomber groups.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 3
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