French attack our shores....Mon Dieu

[Gil Boyd]

What really gets to me is.................we were NEVER allowed to cross the channel and land on French soil in any marked vehicles or travel in uniform, still in force.

We had to travel to Esberg or Bussem harbours in Denmark so we could protect the northern German flank at Schlewig Hostein. Times when they wanted us to jump in for THEIR celebrations, but very rarely for battles that were fought on French soil during DDAY and before.
Never got a direct answer as to why that was..............any takers?

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[Paul S.]

What really gets to me is.................we were NEVER allowed to cross the channel and land on French soil in any marked vehicles or travel in uniform, still in force.

We had to travel to Esberg or Bussem harbours in Denmark so we could protect the northern German flank at Schlewig Hostein. Times when they wanted us to jump in for THEIR celebrations, but very rarely for battles that were fought on French soil during DDAY and before.
Never got a direct answer as to why that was..............any takers?

That is because of De Gaulle.

De Gaulle got his knickers in a knot in 1966 over something post-war with the UK and USA governments about NATO, pulled France out of NATO and kicked all foreign forces out of France. I remember it being in the news for what now seems to have been weeks.

Then too, De Gaulle had no love for Poms or Yanks anyway.