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My guess : 40'Frenchs are at one o'clock and two o'clock, Vichy at three o'clock and Free Frenchs at four o'clock (with some SMC at five).
 
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How about those eight black (with blue center) counters towards the left? Center looks like it might be a hex cluster. OBA of some sort?

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xenovin said:
That’s a lot of counters for a country that fought for six weeks.
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While it fought, there were no American counters to be seen: the latter waited for another 18 months before deciding - and technically because Hitler decided to declare war upon them - to oppose Germany.
 
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xenovin said:
That’s a lot of counters for a country that fought for six weeks.
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They fought until 1945. There were six armies on the Allied front after D-Day - French 1st Army was one of them. If you mean FRENCH in the ASL sense of the word - the blue counters - as noted earlier in the thread, they also fought in North Africa. An Army at Dawn talks about some of the operations in detail.
 
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Swiftandsure said:
While it fought, there were no American counters to be seen: the latter waited for another 18 months before deciding - and technically because Hitler decided to declare war upon them - to oppose Germany.
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Last time I checked there were no Swiss counters to be seen either, nor 18 months later...though negotiable instruments were accepted in certain of your banks.

American SMC were HIP...EX: https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-in-western-europe/battle-of-britain/american-pilots-and-the-battle-of-britain/

Other American counters were in altered colors EX...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease....

Don't throw stones...you have no effective moral high ground even though you might well sit at 6,000 meters.
 
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Michael Dorosh said:
They fought until 1945. There were six armies on the Allied front after D-Day - French 1st Army was one of them. If you mean FRENCH in the ASL sense of the word - the blue counters - as noted earlier in the thread, they also fought in North Africa. An Army at Dawn talks about some of the operations in detail.
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Excellent book series.
 
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  1. I didn’t say it was a side show
  2. Russians lost that in a day
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And suffered 85,310 KIA, 12,000 MIA and 120,000 WIA. Of the 1,540,000 prisoners, 24,600 died in captivity. Not a trivial side show.
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GI Joe still showed up and kicked Germans back to Germany. Again.

Swiftandsure said:
While it fought, there were no American counters to be seen: the latter waited for another 18 months before deciding - and technically because Hitler decided to declare war upon them - to oppose Germany.
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Justiciar said:
Last time I checked there were no Swiss counters to be seen either, nor 18 months later...though negotiable instruments were accepted in certain of your banks.

American SMC were HIP...EX: https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-in-western-europe/battle-of-britain/american-pilots-and-the-battle-of-britain/

Other American counters were in altered colors EX...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease....

Don't throw stones...you have no effective moral high ground even though you might well sit at 6,000 meters.
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I am not proud of Switzerland indeed.
But when I see an American throwing stones at the French, I don't find it correct either.
 
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