My father, a free french 1943/1945

...on the same way as the

3rd Infantry Division

During WW2, 23.000 French volunteers left their invaded country to join the Forces Françaises Libres and the Allied in North Africa.

Risking their lives, they crossed the Pyrenees mountains. Most of them were captured by Franco's police,  and spent many months in dreadful jails.

As soon as they were released, they reached North Africa by boat and enrolled in the French Army.

But History is selective… With time, some facts became more important than others.

Although they wrote some of the most important pages of our History and undoubtedly the most beautiful pages of their own lives, these men became disregarded, ignored and then, one day, forgotten.. The pages they wrote were made of distress, hope and victory.

They carried forever the supreme honour of « never having put their weapons down » during the dark years of their youth.

My father, a « officer chauffeur », was one of them. He drove a command car from Casablanca to Innsbruck in Austria. He was 22.

I give him my voice to bring a new life to his adventure.


ROBERT LEON 1945

You will find in this website a synopsis of his adventure.


For further details, please e-mail me.

My book is now available (in French, of course)


Frédérique LEON GUITTAT


MA DERNIERE VIE

(My last life)


Sur les routes de la guerre

"Driving a jeep during ww2"

DRANCY LERIDA TUNIS

SIENNE COLMAR INNSBRUCK



275 pages, 20 pages of photos

18 € + 5 € for shipping


For more information, feel free to e-mail me ! (english and german understood)   E MAIL 

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09 January 2008

For more information, feel free to e-mail me ! (english and german understood)   

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My father and me, at the same place, 1945-2005 !

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MAP OF MY FATHER'S TRIP

...on the same way as the 3rd Infantry Division

NEW PICTURES of COLMAR (France) on this page...