• French Major General Marcel Alessandri received twelve Croix de guerre citations over the course of his forty-one year-long career?

Facts on topics related to Croix de guerre

French Resistance

• French Resistance fighter and spy Hélène Deschamps Adams served as the basis for video game character Manon Batiste?
• André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
• Anna Marly originally wrote Chant des Partisans, the song that became the anthem of the French Resistance following the prohibition of La Marseillaise, in Russian?
• Sir James Hutchison, known as the "Pimpernel of the Maquis" for his liaison work with the French Resistance, was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
• celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR?

Charles de Gaulle

• Operation Resurrection was the planned take-over of Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
• René Menzies, at one time Charles de Gaulle's chauffeur, was a record-breaking long-distance cyclist who rode 62,785 miles the year he reached his 63rd birthday?
• the French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944?

George S. Patton

• the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton?

Free French Forces

• Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon?
• the Free French corvette Aconit was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for her service in World War II?

Battle of the Bulge

• Edmund Graves Brown, a member of the Louisiana Ewing newspaper family, was a U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944?
  
• the 395th Infantry Regiment was the only unit during the Battle of the Bulge that did not retreat, earning the nickname Butler's Blue Battlin' Bastards?