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Ernie Pyle was a reporter attached to the American army heading into combat in North Africa.
They are in Oran fighting with the British forces there, here is one of the lines I am questioning, "...The French put up a terrific resistance, and in fact stopped us cold for a while." The context of this passage is of 2 Army photographers who were so caught up in their duties to record the war, they did not realize the battle going on around them.
Another one is "...A friend of mine, Lieutenant Colonel Ken Campbell, captured eight French soldiers......."
I don't know anything about this campaign, but the French? I'm confused!!

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This is a pair of Dutch resistance crystal radios, built into a small metal can, and a matchbox. The image is from a postcard bought at a Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam. The matchbox is marked in Swedish, but Swedish matches were sold in Holland for many years..
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