Free French leader de Gaulle returns to France 70 years ago today (June 14 1944)


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(Wednesday, June 14, 1944; during the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — Free French leader General Charles de Gaulle returned to France today, eight days after the D-Day landings at Normandy and some four years after the Nazi occupation sent him into exile.