Charles de Gaulle - De Gaulle created the Normandie-Niemen squadron

Time: 1942

Place: France

Details: In 1942, de Gaulle created the Normandie-Niemen squadron, a Free French Air Force regiment, to fight on the Eastern Front. It is the only Western allied formation to have fought until the end of the war in the East.

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