Alphonse Juin
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Army-General Alphonse Pierre Juin was a French Army officer who served in both world wars. A graduate of the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr class of 1912, he served in Morocco in 1914 in comman
Juin in 1952
Birth certificate of Alphonse Pierre Juin
American Major General Geoffrey Keyes (left) with British Major General A. L. Collier (centre), and Juin (right). Note how he salutes with his left arm.
Clark (left) and Juin (right) in Siena, Italy, July 1944.
Operation Torch
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Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing Am
Alphonse Juin
…of war until being released at the behest of the Vichy Government in 1941, which assigned him to command French forces in North Africa. Following the Allied invasion of Algeria and Morocco in November 1942, Juin defected to the Allies and ordered French forces in Tunisia to resist the Germans and Italians. He proceeded to command the…
Allied convoys heading from the British Isles to North Africa
American soldiers land near Algiers. The soldier at the dune line is carrying a flag because it was hoped the French would be less likely to fire on Americans.
A flyer in French and Arabic that was distributed by Allied forces in the streets of Casablanca, calling on citizens to cooperate with the Allied forces
U.S. troops landing in Arzew, with troopships in the background