GENERAL LE CLERC KILLED
AIR CRASH IN SAHARA DESERT
FAMOUS WAR-TIME MARCH RECALLED
London, Nov. 28
The French General Le Clerc has been killed in an air crash in the Sahara Desert. It was across the Sahara that
General Le Clerc led the famous war-time march of Free French troops from Lake Chad over 4000 miles of mountain and desert to link up with the British Eighth Army on the shores of the Mediterranean. Later he commanded the French Second Armoured Division, the first to enter Paris at the liberation.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14533, 29 November 1947, Page 3
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