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FRENCH CLOTH INSIGNIA, COLONIAL,ALGERIAN WAR 1952-62
$ 36.95
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This is a Great pieces of lost Empires were the French were trying to bring Order and Security as well as Prosperity to a Foreign Land in need of a Future...L' ALGERIE FRANCAISE!!!!!
IT IS A VERY NICE INSIGNIA, GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC. LOOKS AMAZING, RARE.
THIS BELONGED TO A MEMBER OF THE TERRITORIAL UNITS AND WAS WORN ON THE SLEEVE OF THE SHIRT OR TUNIC. IT IS IN A MINT CONDITION.
THE INSIGNIA D
ATES FROM THE FRENCH/ ALGERIAN WAR ( IN NORTHEN AFRICA) WERE THE GENERAL DE GAULLE, WHO WAS A HERO DURING WW2, BETRAYED THE LEGION AND FRANCE ITSELF IN GIVING ALGERIA ITS INDEPENDANCE IN 1962, THE WAR HAD STARTED IN 1952.
THE FIRST REGIMENT D'INFANTRY "DE LA LEGION ETRANGERE", REFUSED TO CONCEED AND HEROICALLY STOODED UP IN FRONT OF THE ENEMY AND THE WEAK FRENCH GOVERNMENT. THEY WERE PUNISHED OF HIGH TRAHISON, THE GENERALS WERE EXCECUTED AND THE PARTICIPANTS WERE EMPRISONNED...
THIS IS THE BADGE OF ONE OF THOSE FRENCH HEROES THAT FOUGHT IN ALGERIA.
SUPERB!
I WILL SHIP IN THE US FOR FREE.