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Citation for the Legion of Merit for General Charles de Gaulle
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CITATION FOR THE LEGION OF MERIT Degree of Chief Commander General Charles de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic and Commander-in-Chief of France's armed forces, performed distinguished services by maintaining his nation's effort in the struggle ageinst the common enemy in Europe, From the chaos which followed the unleashing of the aggressor states' military power he emerged to keep bright the flame of liberty among his coutrymen, to relly them in the cause of freedom, to merge their revived strength with the growing might of the United Nations. In victory he returned to his native soil, there to rebuild on firm principles a nation rededicated to liberty, equalit ty and fraternity. TRUMAN, ERCHIVES INTIANATIONAL REDORDS AND of SERVICE" F COVERAGE