The French Civil and Military High Command was an administrative and military governing body in Algiers that was created in connection with the Allied landings in French North Africa on 7 and 8 Novemb
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Henri Giraud saluting the flags of both nations at Allied headquarters (1943)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Giraud (19 Jan. 1943)
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Henri Honoré Giraud was a French Army general best known for his escape from German captivity in 1942 and subsequently as one of the leaders of the French Resistance and a rival of Charles de Gaulle.
Giraud (second from the right) with German officers, May 1940
Giraud during one of his daily walks in captivity
Propaganda poster depicting Giraud as civil and military commander-in-chief